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Indian textiles : 1,000 years of art and design

Title
Indian textiles : 1,000 years of art and design / Karun Thakar, Rosemary Crill, Avalon Fotheringham, Sylvia Houghteling and Steven Cohen.
Publication
  • Washington, D.C. : The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum ; London : Produced for the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum by Hali Publications Limited, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Crill, Rosemary
  • Fotheringham, Avalon
  • Houghteling, Sylvia
  • Cohen, Steven (Textile historian)
  • Thakar, Karun.
  • George Washington University. Museum, host institution.
  • Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.), host institution.
Description
416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 33 cm
Summary
The book features items from one of the world's foremost private collections of Indian textiles, the Karun Thakar Collection, together with key pieces from two recently united American collections, The Textile Museum and the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection in Washington, DC. The book and accompanying exhibition offer a unique approach to understanding Indian textile culture through reference to three distinct traditions: abstract, floral and figurative design. With essays by three leading international Indian textile curators, the publication's focus on textile ornament rather than date, region, usage, or technique provides new perspective and scholarship on this ancient artistic tradition. The book will highlight the tradition's remarkable diversity, with objects ranging from folk embroideries to Mughal courtly weavings, and from early textiles traded to Egypt and Southeast Asia to 18th-century chintzes exported to Europe. Exhibition: The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, Washington D.C., USA (through June 4, 2022).
Uniform Title
Indian textiles (Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.))
Alternative Title
One thousand years of art and design
Subject
  • Thakar, Karun > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Textile design > India > Exhibitions
  • Textile fabrics, Indic > Design > Exhibitions
  • Textile fabrics > India > Exhibitions
  • Textile fabrics > India > Themes, motives
  • Art, Abstract > South Asia
  • Flowers in art
  • Figurative art > South Asia
  • Textiles et tissus > Dessins > Inde > Expositions
  • Textiles et tissus > Inde > Thèmes, motifs
  • Textiles et tissus > Inde > Expositions
  • Textile fabrics > Themes, motives
  • Textile design
  • India
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Some pages are on folded leaves, for example pages 235-238, 291-298.
  • "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Indian textiles: 1,000 years of art and design' at the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C."--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-412) and index.
Contents
Abstract patterns -- Floral patterns -- Figurative patterns.
Call Number
NK8876.A1
ISBN
  • 9781898113966
  • 1898113963
LCCN
2021909329
OCLC
  • 1225068419
  • on1225068419
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries