Research Catalog

Title

The Shakers : from Mount Lebanon to the World / edited by Michael K. Komanecky ; contributions by Leonard L. Brooks [and 8 others].

Publication

New York : Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Komanecky, Michael
• Brooks, Leonard L.
• Farnsworth Museum of Art.

Description

272 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum, this book presents a new and authentic perspective on the Shaker community. Specially commissioned photography, archival imagery, essays by prominent scholars, and a firsthand interview with a member of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community deepen our understanding of this influential movement and style. Outstanding examples of furniture, textiles, tools, and other objects-drawn primarily from the collection of Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon-bring the fascinating world of the Shakers to life. The book also explores the equally compelling material culture of Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine.

Subject

• Shakers > United States > History
• Shaker Museum (Sabbathday Lake, Me.)
• Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon
• Shaker furniture
• Shaker decorative arts
• Shaker architecture

Note

• "This book was produced in conjunction with the Farnsworth Art Museum exhibition The Shakers : from Mount Lebanon to the World, June 14, 2014, through January 5, 2015. The exhibition was organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum in partnership with The Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon, and The United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake Inc."--Verso of title page.
• Includes index.

ISBN

• 9780847842629 (hardback) :
• 0847842622 (hardback)

OCLC

• ocn871338102
• 871338102
• SCSB-9700571

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries