Quaker aesthetics : reflections on a Quaker ethic in American design and consumption / edited by Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck.

Author/creator Lapsansky, Emma Jones
Other author Verplanck, Anne A.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxiv, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Aesthetics--Religious aspects. --Society of Friends. --History.
Society of Friends--Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.). --History.
Aesthetics, American--Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.). --History.
Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Church history.

Contents Past plainness to present simplicity : a search for Quaker identity / Emma Jones Lapsansky -- From plainness to simplicity : changing Quaker ideals for material culture / J. William Frost -- Quakers and high chests : the plainness problem reconsidered / Susan Garfinkel -- "All that makes a man's mind more active" : Jane and Reuben Haines at Wyck, 1812-1831 / John M. Groff -- Living in the light : Quakerism and colonial portraiture / Diannne C. Johnson -- Quaker beliefs and practices and the eighteenth-century development of the Friends meeting house in the Delaware Valley / Catherine C. Lavoie -- Eighteenth-century Quaker houses in the Delaware Valley and the aesthetics of practice / Bernard L. Herman -- Edward Hicks : Quaker artist and minister / Carolyn J. Weekley -- The aesthetics of absence : Quaker women's plain dress in the Delaware Valley, 1790-1900 / Mary Anne Caton -- Sara Tyson Hallowell : forsaking plain for fancy / Carolyn Kinder Carr -- What's real? Quaker material culture and eighteenth-century historic site interpretation / Karie Diethorn.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002028951
ISBN0812236920 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BX7748.A77 L36 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold