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Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920 Book

Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920
Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920, The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation, Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920 has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920
  • Written by author Emma Jones Lapsansky
  • Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., December 2002
  • The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation
  • How did Quakers reconcile their belief in plain living with their appreciation of fine material goods?
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Preface
1Past Plainness to Present Simplicity: A Search for Quaker Identity1
2From Plainness to Simplicity: Changing Quaker Ideals for Material Culture16
Pt. IQuakers as Consumers
Introduction43
3Quakers and High Chests: The Plainness Problem Reconsidered50
4"All That Makes a Man's Mind More Active": Jane and Reuben Haines at Wyck, 1812-183190
5Living in the Light: Quakerism and Colonial Portraiture122
Pt. IIQuakers as Producers
Introduction149
6Quaker Beliefs and Practices and the Eighteenth-Century Development of the Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley156
7Eighteenth-Century Quaker Houses in the Delaware Valley and the Aesthetics of Practice188
8Edward Hicks: Quaker Artist and Minister212
Pt. IIIQuakers and Modernity
Introduction237
9The Aesthetics of Absence: Quaker Women's Plain Dress in the Delaware Valley, 1790-1900246
10Sara Tyson Hallowell: Forsaking Plain for Fancy272
11What's Real? Quaker Material Culture and Eighteenth-Century Historic Site Interpretation287
Notes301
Glossary371
List of Contributors381
Index383


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