Kantha : the embroidered quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection and the Stella Kramrisch collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art / edited by Darielle Mason ; with essays by Pika Ghosh ... [et al.].

Kantha : the embroidered quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection and the Stella Kramrisch collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art /

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Other Authors: Mason, Darielle, Ghosh, Pika, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; c2009.
Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
Internet Archive Lending Library
Subjects:
Bonovitz, Sheldon M. > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Bonovitz, Jill > (Jill F.) > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Kramrisch, Stella, > 1898-1993 > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Kanthas > Exhibitions.
Acquisition Notes:Gertrud A. White Memorial Fund
Table of Contents:
  • Background texture : lives and landscapes of Bengal's embroidered quilts / Darielle Mason
  • From rags to riches : valuing Kanthas in Bengali households / Pika Ghosh
  • In search of "living traditions" : Gurusaday Dutt, Zainul Abedin, and the institutional life of Kanthas / Katherine Hacker
  • Embroidering Bengal : Kantha imagery and regional identity / Pika Ghosh
  • Woman's word/women's voices in the Kantha / Niaz Zaman
  • A many-splendored thing : Kantha technique and design / Anne Peranteau
  • Interwoven in the pattern of time : Stella Kramrisch and Kanthas / Darielle Mason
  • Kanthā (1939) / Stella Kramrisch
  • Resonances : a discussion on collecting with Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz / Darielle Mason.

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