Secure Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings And Gift Songs Portrayed By France Morin Rendered As Manuscript

both an extraordinary aesthetic experience and a reasoned account of these delicate gift drawings, texts, and songs, Heavenly Visions demonstrates that the Shakers, best known for the austere functionalism of their crafts were, if briefly, extraordinary picturemakers, whose imagery is steeped in symbolism, rich in colour, and elegant in design.
” Art History

For many people, the art of the Shakers is thought to be the furniture, objects, and buildings for which their spiritual communities are perhaps most well known.
But this is a misconception: during a spiritual revival in the early nineteenth century, Shakers throughout the eastern United States created some of our nations most exceptionally rich, visual, and beautiful artistic treasures.
Heavenly Visions includes close to one hundred color plates of Shaker gift drawings and songs, providing a comprehensive overview to these stunning works.


Distributed for The Drawing Center

France Morin is curator of the exhibition Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs at The Drawing Center in New York City.
inspiring

amp eye opening. this is the book that introduced me to it all, i love the shaker history and reading about the lifestyle: the importance of space within the community, how it helped them reach their spiritual goals on a daily basis, and also how they sought an inner balance through the outer/material world.
quite wonderful stuff. seeing it all mapped out in beautiful gift drawings, and in mysterious diagrams, gardens, living spaces.
. . is quite wonderful. This is a catalog from the Drawing Center on Wooster St in Manhattan, They really do a good job reproducing nice images of drawings, and in this case it is crucial, because it would be easy for these drawings to be presented badly.
They had a catalog in the Hancock Shaker village gift shop where the photographs weren't that good and it really wrecked the presentation.
Gift Drawings are drawn under inspiration from the Spirit, and they contained important spiritual images and texts.
Sometimes the text is in an unknown language, Overall there is some really interesting stuff in here, I especially like the drawing by a Shaker named Polly Collins which is very symetrical and ordered, and also seems to be inspired and estatic at the same time.
Very good book for hardcore drawing people, France Morin is a contemporary art curator and historian who founded The Quiet in the Land art and education project in.
She was Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York fromto.
She lives in New York, .