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Kantha : the embroidered quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection and the Stella Kramrisch collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Title
- 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.].
- Publication
- Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQG 10-417 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 290 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 30 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Published in connection with the exhibition held Dec. 12, 2009-July 25, 2010, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQG 10-417
- ISBN
- 9780876332184 (pma cloth)
- 0876332181 (pma cloth)
- 9780876332191 (pma paper)
- 087633219X (pma paper)
- 9780300154429 (yale cloth)
- 0300154429 (yale cloth)
- LCCN
- 2009033382
- OCLC
- 326626421
- Title
- 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.].
- Imprint
- Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Mason, Darielle.Ghosh, Pika, 1969-
- Research Call Number
- JQG 10-417