Kantha
Subtitle: the embroidered quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection and the Stella Kramrisch collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
By: edited by Darielle Mason ; with essays by Pika Ghosh ... [et al.].
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art; In association with Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780876332184; 9780876332191; 9780300154429
Description: With essays by Pika Ghosh, Katherine Hacker, Darielle Mason, Anne Peranteau, and Niaz Zaman.
Notes: Published in connection with the exhibition held Dec. 12, 2009-July 25, 2010, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Background texture : lives and landscapes of Bengal's embroidered quilts / Darielle Mason; title: From rags to riches : valuing Kanthas in Bengali households / Pika Ghosh; title: In search of "living traditions" : Gurusaday Dutt, Zainul Abedin, and the institutional life of Kanthas / Katherine Hacker; title: Embroidering Bengal : Kantha imagery and regional identity / Pika Ghosh; title: Woman's word/women's voices in the Kantha / Niaz Zaman; title: A many-splendored thing : Kantha technique and design / Anne Peranteau; title: Interwoven in the pattern of time : Stella Kramrisch and Kanthas / Darielle Mason; title: Kanthā (1939) / Stella Kramrisch; title: Resonances : a discussion on collecting with Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz / Darielle Mason.