Shaker Vision: Seeing Beauty in Early America

by Joseph Manca

The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual pleasures, from flowers, sunsets, rainbows, and the northern lights as seen at home to waterfalls, ocean waves, and dramatic cliffs viewed while traveling across America.

In Shaker Vision, Joseph Manca...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625344686
• ISBN13: 9781625344687
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 8.9"