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In Search of “Living Traditions”: Gurusaday Dutt, Zainul Abedin, and the Institutional Life of Kanthas
Katherine Hacker
Description: Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz...
Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
When Stella Kramrisch started collecting kanthas in the 1920s and 1930s, some of her contemporaries in Calcutta (Kolkata) were also actively engaged in this enterprise. Kramrisch began her academic career in India at Visva-Bharati in rural Santiniketan...
Author
Katherine Hacker
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Copyright© 2009 Philadelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.60-79
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00323.3
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22914
Chapter subject tags:KanthasDatta, Gurusadaẏa, 1882-1941Bengal (India)--Social life and customsFolk art--ExhibitionsAbedin, Zainul, 1914-1976

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In Search of “Living Traditions”: Gurusaday Dutt, Zainul Abedin, and the Institutional Life of Kanthas