Pika Ghosh Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal 9780295746999

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Автор: Pika Ghosh
Название: Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
ISBN: 9780295746999
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Произведения искусства из текстиля

Мода и текстиль: дизайн

История Азии

Гендерные исследования, гендерные группы

ISBN-10: 0295746998
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 288
Вес: 1.02 кг.
Дата издания: 01.07.2020
Серия: Global south asiaglobal south asiaglobal south asiaglobal south asiaglobal south asiamaking kantha, making home
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 103 color illus.
Размер: 262 x 183 x 23
Ключевые слова: Textile artworks,Gender studies, gender groups,Asian history, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies,DESIGN / Textile & Costume
Подзаголовок: Women at work in colonial bengal
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Поставляется из: Англии
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In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats.

Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the first study of colonial-period women’s embroidery that situates these objects historically and socially, Pika Ghosh brings technique and aesthetic choices into discussion with iconography and regional culture.

Ghosh uses ethnographic and archival research, inscriptions, and images to locate embroiderers’ work within domestic networks and to show how imagery from poetry, drama, prints, and watercolors expresses kantha artists’ visual literacy. Affinities with older textile practices include the region’s lucrative maritime trade in embroideries with Europe, Africa, and China. This appraisal of individual objects alongside the people and stories behind the objects’ creation elevates kantha beyond consideration as mere handcraft to recognition as art.

Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal, Pika Ghosh