Indian textiles : 1,000 years of art and design / Karun Thakar, Rosemary Crill, Avalon Fotheringham, Sylvia Houghteling and Steven Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crill, Rosemary, writer of supplementary textual content.

Fotheringham, Avalon, writer of supplementary textual content.

Houghteling, Sylvia, writer of supplementary textual content.

Cohen, Steven (Textile historian), writer of supplementary textual content.

Thakar, Karun, donor, writer of supplementary textual content.

George Washington University. Museum, host institution.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile design--India--Exhibitions.

Textile design.

Textile fabrics, Indic--Design--Exhibitions.

Textile fabrics, Indic.

Textile fabrics--India--Exhibitions.

Textile fabrics.

Thakar, Karun--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Thakar, Karun.

Textile fabrics--India--Themes, motives.

Art, Abstract--South Asia.

Art, Abstract.

Flowers in art.

Figurative art--South Asia.

Figurative art.

Textile fabrics--Themes, motives.

India.

Genre:

History.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Other Title:

One thousand years of art and design

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum ; London : Produced for the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum by Hali Publications Limited, [2021]

Summary:

The book features items from one of the world's foremost private collections of Indian textiles, the Karun Thakar Collection, together with key pieces from two recently united American collections, The Textile Museum and the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection in Washington, DC. The book and accompanying exhibition offer a unique approach to understanding Indian textile culture through reference to three distinct traditions: abstract, floral and figurative design. With essays by three leading international Indian textile curators, the publication's focus on textile ornament rather than date, region, usage, or technique provides new perspective and scholarship on this ancient artistic tradition. The book will highlight the tradition's remarkable diversity, with objects ranging from folk embroideries to Mughal courtly weavings, and from early textiles traded to Egypt and Southeast Asia to 18th-century chintzes exported to Europe. Exhibition: The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, Washington D.C., USA (through June 4, 2022).

Contents:

Abstract patterns

Floral patterns

Figurative patterns.

Notes:

Some pages are on folded leaves, for example pages 235-238, 291-298.

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Indian textiles: 1,000 years of art and design' at the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-412) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781898113966

1898113963

OCLC:

1225068419