The Stella Kramrisch Collection

Mason, Darielle

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The Stella Kramrisch Collection

Darielle Mason (Editor)

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

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Darielle Mason (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00323.8

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The Stella Kramrisch Collection

Interwoven in the Pattern of Time: Stella Kramrisch and Kanthas

Kanthā

Plates 1–52

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BOOKKantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Darielle Mason (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00323

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22907

This first book-length study on kanthas published outside of South Asia focuses on two premier collections, one assembled by the legendary historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch, the other by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of self-taught art. Created from worn-out garments imaginatively embroidered by women with motifs and tales drawn from a rich regional repertoire, kanthas traditionally were stitched as gifts for births, weddings, and other family occasions.

Innovative essays by leading scholars explore the domestic, ritual, and historical contexts of the fascinating quilts in these collections—made between the mid-19th and mid-20th century in what is today Bangladesh and West Bengal, India—and trace their reinterpretation as emblems of national identity and works of art.

Author

Darielle Mason (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Print publication date December 2009 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300154429

EISBN 9780300270549

Illustrations 270

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