About the Author:
Darielle Mason is the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art and Head of the Department of South Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Adjunct Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
Review:
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award (College Art Association)... constitutes a model of how to make a catalogue about specific collections that far outreaches the task of honoring the collectors in question. Offering acute insights into an important region and an understudied medium, the book not only celebrates a lively vernacular textile tradition but also accords, for the first time, a comprehensive, sensitive treatment to this form of women's domestic,creative, and social expression. In a series of richly grounded, engagingly written essays, Mason and her collaborators locate Kantha in wider sociocultural, historical, political, economic, and religious currents while tackling issues sometimes avoided in such studies, such as matters surrounding the quiltmakers' agency.
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