{"id":11340,"date":"2020-02-10T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2020-02-10T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:55:00","slug":"shaker-emlen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/shaker-emlen\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | The Evolving Image of Shaker Life with Rob Emlen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 4 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library<\/strong>, Rob Emlen will discuss his newly-published book Imagining the Shakers<\/em>, based in part on research in the Hay’s Special Collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Evolving Image of Shaker Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the half century between 1830 and 1880, the American public encountered the first visual images of this country’s oldest and largest communal religious society. Published as newspaper and magazine illustrations or as separate engravings and lithographs meant to be framed and displayed, these prints reveal the changing ways in which Americans imagined the radically nonconformist Shakers, evolving from suspicion and ridicule to acceptance as a valued part of the cultural landscape of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob Emlen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rob Emlen is a Visiting Scholar in American Studies at Brown University and a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He recently retired as university curator and senior lecturer in American Studies at Brown, and as a part-time faculty member in the Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. During his 34 years at Brown he conducted much of the research for his book Imagining the Shakers<\/em> in the collections of the John Hay Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Time<\/strong>:\u00a04 p.m.
Location<\/strong>: Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To request special services, accommodations, or assistance for this event, please contact Jennifer Braga at Jennifer_Braga@brown.edu<\/a> or (401) 863-6913 as far in advance of the event as possible. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 4 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Rob Emlen will discuss his newly-published book Imagining the Shakers, based in part on research in the Hay’s Special Collections. The Evolving Image of Shaker Life In the half century between 1830 and 1880, the American public encountered … Event | The Evolving Image of Shaker Life with Rob Emlen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,34,35,8,155,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}