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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. (Emma Jones), 1945-

Verplanck, Anne A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Society of Friends--History.

Aesthetics.

Society of Friends--Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--History.

Society of Friends.

Aesthetics, American--Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--History.

Aesthetics, American.

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Church history.

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Quaker church buildings--Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--History.

Quaker church buildings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 394 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0812236920 (cloth : alk. paper)