Shaker design
Subtitle: out of this world
By: Jean M. Burks, editor.
Publisher: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York and the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont by Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780300137286
Subjects: Shakers; Shaker decorative arts; Decorative arts -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Shaker world. Shaker villages and the landscape of "gospel order" / robert P. Emlen; title: Faith, form, and finish: Shaker furniture in context / Jean M. Burks; title: Designed for sale: Shaker commerce with the world / M. Stephen Miller. The spiritual world. The problem of female leadership in early Shakerism / Jean M. Humez; title: "Given by inspiration": visionary expressions in Shaker life and art (1837 to 1859) / Gerard C. Wertkin. The fancy world. Plain Shakers, fancy world / Sumpter Priddy. The contemporary world. In the spirit? Twentieth-century and contemporary Shaker-inspired design / Kory Rogers.