Susan S. Bean, former senior curator at Peabody Essex Museum spotlights Bengal’s raw clay art

Susan S. Bean, former senior curator at Peabody Essex Museum spotlights Bengal’s raw clay art

However, the impermanent, brightly hued gods and goddesses of unfired clay mass-produced in the bylanes of Kumartuli in Calcutta and Ghurni in Krishnanagar, admired and much photographed though they are for the skill that goes into their making, do not command a high place in the hierarchy of visual arts