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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. (Emma Jones), 1945-
Other Authors: Verplanck, Anne A.
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2003], ©2003.
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.
Physical Description:xiv, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.