Shaker Inspirational Drawings

Author : Stephen Bowe,Peter Richmond
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846310089

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Selling Shaker by Stephen Bowe,Peter Richmond Pdf

The simple yet striking lines of Shaker design grace much of the furniture we see in high-end department stores, and beautiful examples of it adorn the pages of Architectural Digest and House Beautiful. How did this style evolve from its origins in a humble, small religious community to the international design phenomenon it is today? This illustrated study explores the emergence of the Shaker style and how it was vigorously promoted by scholars and artists into the prominence it now enjoys. The heart of the Shaker style lies in the religious movement founded in the eighteenth century, where Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond begin their chronicle. From there, the authors chart the evolution of the style into the twentieth century—particularly in the hands of design media, scholars, and art institutions. These Shaker “agents” repositioned Shaker style continuously—from local vernacular to high culture and then popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources, including museum catalogs, contemporary design magazines, and scholarly writings, Selling Shaker illustrates in detail how the Shaker style entered the general design consciousness and how the original aesthetic was gradually diluted into a generic style for a mass audience. A wholly original and fascinating study of American design and consumption, Selling Shaker is a unique resource for collectors, scholars, and anyone interested in the cultural history of a design aesthetic.

Author : Christian Becksvoort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732210039

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Shaker Inspirations by Christian Becksvoort Pdf

Author : Smith College. Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Drawing, American
ISBN : PSU:000010057605

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Shaker Inspirational Drawings by Smith College. Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Daniel Watkins Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:39000005495309

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Gift Drawing and Gift Song by Daniel Watkins Patterson Pdf

Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195335798

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Joan M. Marter Pdf

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

Author : Stephen J. Paterwic
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810870567

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The A to Z of the Shakers by Stephen J. Paterwic Pdf

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, followed Mother Ann Lee to the United States in 1774 when life in England became difficult. In the United States, they established several colonies whose governing principals included celibacy and agrarian communal living. Even at its peak, however, Shakerism claimed only about 4,500 members. Today, except for one active community in Sabbathday, Maine, the great Shaker villages are diminished, but the Shakers left an enduring impact on the religion and culture of the United States. The A to Z of the Shakers relates the history of this fascinating group through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on Shaker communities, industries, individual families, and important people. Every definition, biography, and point of history was submitted to the Shakers at Sabbathday Lake for their review before it was included for publication. As such, the voice of the contemporary Shakers is found in the dictionary, and they have given it their unequivocal endorsement.

Author : Stephen J. Paterwic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538102312

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Historical Dictionary of the Shakers by Stephen J. Paterwic Pdf

“Shakerism teaches God’s immanence through the common life shared in Christ’s mystical body.” Like many religious seekers throughout the ages, they honor the revelation of God but cannot be bound up in an unchanging set of dogmas or creeds. Freeing themselves from domination by the state religion, Mother Ann Lee and her first followers in mid-18th-century England labored to encounter the godhead directly. They were blessed by spiritual gifts that showed them a way to live the heavenly life on Earth. The result of their efforts was the fashioning of a celibate communal life called the Christlife, wherein a person, after confessing all sin, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, can travel the path of regeneration into ever- increasing holiness. Pacifism, equality of the sexes, and withdrawal from the world are some of the ways the faith was put into practice. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Shakers contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on Shaker communities, industries, individual families, and important people. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Shakers.

Author : Carol Medlicott
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611684346

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Issachar Bates by Carol Medlicott Pdf

A biography of a key western Shaker in early America

Author : M. Stephen Miller
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1584656298

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From Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands by M. Stephen Miller Pdf

The definitive volume on Shaker commercial ephemera

Author : Edward D. Andrews
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486144719

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The People Called Shakers by Edward D. Andrews Pdf

Definitive study provides detailed coverage of origins, ideology, industry and art, mode of worship, internal organization of communities. Author's reliance on original manuscript material make this study especially useful. 33 illustrations.

Author : Julia Neal
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813188515

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The Kentucky Shakers by Julia Neal Pdf

In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the Shaker community in New Lebanon, New York, came to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to recruit converts. Soon there were little communities of Believers at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County and at South Union in Logan County. These settlements survived into the twentieth century as centers of worship and communal life; the buildings the Shakers erected here and many of their tools and artifacts remain to delight the eye today. But it is the life of the Shakers as well as the monuments they left that Julia Neal explores. Using the detailed journals and other records kept at both communities, she recounts the early struggles against poverty and persecution, the high hopes of the 1850s when the Shaker idea of communal life seemed to have borne fruit at last, and the hardship and violence of Civil War and Reconstruction days, from which the Kentucky Shakers were never to recover. This absorbing account of the Shakers at Pleasant Hill and South Union is, like so much else associated with the Shakers, simple, functional, and beautiful.

Author : Jean M. Burks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015076159014

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Shaker Design by Jean M. Burks Pdf

Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester, England, in 1776 to avoid persecution, the Shakers crossed the Atlantic and during the next 50 years established 19 villages from Maine to Kentucky. The Shakers were guided by the principles of utility, honesty, and order in both their work and worship, and this belief system influenced the physical expression of the goods they produced for use at home and for sale outside their communities. This lovely book presents a wide array of extraordinarily fine examples of Shaker furniture, household objects, textiles, religious drawings, and items made to sell to the "world's people" (non-Shakers). The book's expert contributors discuss Shaker design in relation to the furniture they constructed, the products they sold, their gift drawings and spirituality, and their rejection of American Fancy design. The book also considers the powerful inspiration Shaker design has provided for diverse modern and contemporary designers, including George Nakashima, Roy McMakin, Thomas Moser, and Scandinavian furniture makers.

Author : Flo Morse
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781581575514

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The Story of the Shakers (Revised Edition) by Flo Morse Pdf

Featuring a new introduction, a compassionate look at a religious movement that shaped America “Put your hands to work and your hearts to God,” Mother Ann Lee told her spiritual children more than 200 years ago. Today, as the number of Shakers has dwindled to only a handful, the story of the Shakers has never been more important to record and understand. In this classic book featuring a brand-new introduction, Flo Morse offers a stimulating, graceful summary of Shaker beliefs and the way of life that still endures among a chosen few.

Author : Robley Edward Whitson
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809123738

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The Shakers by Robley Edward Whitson Pdf

Discusses the theology of the Shaker religion and examines the attitudes of the Shakers toward celibacy and community.

Author : Flo Morse
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0874514266

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The Shakers and the World's People by Flo Morse Pdf

A comprehensive illustrated anthology of material about and by the American Shakers.