Selling Shaker : the commodification of Shaker design in the twentieth century / Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond.

Main entry:

Bowe, Stephen.

Title & Author:

Selling Shaker : the commodification of Shaker design in the twentieth century / Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Description:

x, 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Value, art, politics ; 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-393) and index.
Foreword -- Introduction -- Simple and pure -- The early promotion of Shaker design in the United States of America -- Forms and forces -- The penetration of Shaker design into museum and popular cultures -- Spirit and function ; The infiltration of Shaker design into museum and popular cultures -- West and east ; The movement of Shaker design into museum and popular cultures from the west to the east and vice vera.

Summary:

"The Shakers - a religious community with its origins in the eighteenth century - continue to exert an influence upon twenty-first century life, not for their religious teachings but rather through the simple yet elegant aesthetic they developed for the everyday artefacts they designed. Selling Shaker explores this influence and charts its evolution throughout the course of the twentieth century via the interest shown by the media, art institutions and general public in the Shaker story. While other books have sought to examine the origins of the religious or aesthetic basis of the movement throughout the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book seeks to deal with the Shaker phenomenon from a different angle. Selling Shaker examines the means by which the Shakers have been 'promoted' during the course of the last century by scholars and museum academics in order to establish a 'national' style. The book follows this process from high art to popular culture influences, illustrating how the Shaker style has entered the general design consciousness and in doing so has become largely divorced from the original Shaker aesthetic. Using a variety of sources ranging from museum catalogues to contemporary design magazines, Selling Shaker tells the story of the rise and rise of the Shaker phenomenon."--Jacket.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9781846310089 (hardcover)
1846310083 (hardcover)
9781846310096 (pbk.)
1846310091 (pbk.)

Subject:

Shaker decorative arts Marketing History 20th century.
Shaker furniture Marketing History 20th century.
Shaker decorative arts.
Shaker furniture.
Shaker architecture.
Arts décoratifs shakers.
Meubles shakers.
Architecture shaker.
Shakers Design.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Richmond, Peter, 1959-
Value, art, politics ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251369
Call No.: BIB 180861
Status: Available

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