Shaker vision : seeing beauty in early America / Joseph Manca

Author:: Manca, Joseph, 1956-
Additional Titles:: Seeing beauty in early America
Published:: Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
Physical Description:: x, 391 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm

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Contents:

The Shakers and the human body, Beauty, curiosity, and spectacle -- "Saw a very pleasing sight to day", Viewing landscape and nature -- Crafting Zion, Refinement and restraint in Shaker villages -- Journeys to the outside, Seeing the art and architecture of the world's people -- Visions, voices, and art, Imagining heaven and earth.

Subject(s):

Aesthetics—Religious aspects—Shakers
Aesthetics, American

ISBN:

9781625344687 paperback
1625344686 paperback

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-379) and index.

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