Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India

Rarely has there been available, on film, a record of an exhibition such as the great East Indian exhibition collected and shown by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955. Here is the color, sound, texture, poetry, and rhythm of a people rich in tradition, and in a philosophy that touches every object of daily life. Music by Ustad Ali Akbar Kahn and Pandit Chatur Lal.

11 minutes.