Quaker aesthetics

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Quaker Aesthetics Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, Edited by Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck. pages | 6 x 9 | 90 illus. Cloth | ISBN | $s | Outside the Americas £ "An impressive and thought-provoking book of excellent scholarship."—. Quaker Aesthetics book.

Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domest /5(6). Quaker aesthetics book 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.

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[Emma J Lapsansky-Werner; Anne A Verplanck] -- "In early America, Quakers dominated the political and social landscape of the Delaware Valley, and, because this region held a position of political and economic strength, the Quakers were tightly.

Detailing how Quakers have manufactured, bought, and used such goods as clothing, furniture, and buildings, the essays in Quaker Aesthetics reveal a much more complicated picture than that of a simple people with simple tastes.

Instead, the authors show how, despite the high quality of their material lives, the Quakers in the past worked toward Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker aesthetics book Ethic in American Design and Consumption is a much needed examination ofQuaker material culture. Curator of Prints and Paintings at the Winterthur Museum, the volume assembles Book Reviews83 eleven essays by established scholars with expertise in Quakers and the visual arts, including J.

William. The Quaker Aesthetics book has a nice section on plain dress, with some photos and illustrations. Why Do They Dress That Way. by Stephen Scott (People's Place Booklet No. 7) Quaker Aesthetics Edited by Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, ).

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"The Silhouette and Quaker Identity in Early National Philadelphia.". According to Lapsansky, Quaker Aesthetics“surveys examples of the dress, interior home designs and architecture created or purchased by Quakers in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century.

“The book examines whether or not there is a connection between theology – in this case, Quakerism – and the notion of a uniquely Quaker style in. A good book if you would like to further explore Quaker material culture is Quaker Aesthetics: Reflection on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption.

Google Books does provide an extensive preview of this work. New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, price £ 00 Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, /5. Through an examination of some of the material possessions of Quaker families in America during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the contributors to Quaker Aesthetics draw on the methods of art, social, religious, and public historians as well as folklorists to explore how Friends during this period reconciled their.

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Recommended Citation. Homan, Roger () "Lapsansky & Verplanck's "Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic on American Design and Consumption" - Book Review," Quaker Studies: Vol. 8: Iss.2, Article Author: Roger Homan. 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.

Early Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends, who held "plainness" or "simplicity" as a virtue, were also active consumers of fine. Quaker aesthetics: reflections on a Quaker ethic in American design and consumption [] Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J.

(Emma Jones), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c Quaker Studies is the only refereed journal covering all aspects of Quaker studies. Quaker Studies is multi-disciplinary and articles submitted typically cover the subject areas of aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art, cultural studies, history, literature, peace studies, philosophy, research methodology, sociology, theology, and women’s studies.

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Verplanck was published in Ty Cashion, long time attender at Live Oak Friends Meeting, published another book this past fall on Texas history. Goodreads begins its description thus: "There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself—and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state’s.

Book Reviews Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck, eds. Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, xiv+ ; 16 color plates; 69 black and white illustrations, glossary, index.

$ A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held. Typically Friends meeting houses do not have steeples.

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Quaker aesthetics. Luke Howard, Quaker chemist and co-founder of Allen & Hanburys (1), was the author of a short essay 'On beauty, in the Creation and in the Mind', written in and published in in The Yorkshireman (2) (a short-lived Quaker publication) (3).It is one of the earliest statements of a new Quaker aesthetics.

The occasion was the launch of the book Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better as chief curator of special collections at Haverford College and is the co-editor of Quaker Aesthetics.

Another good source of information is Catherine C. Lavoie, "Quaker Beliefs and Practices and the Eighteenth-Century Development of the Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley," in Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck, eds., Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption (Phila.: University of.

Sarah Tyson Hallowell or Sara Tyson Hallowell (December 7, – J ) was an American art curator in the years between the Civil War and World War curated a number of major exhibitions in Chicago, arranged the loan exhibition of French Art at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and worked with Bertha Palmer (–) to organize the murals for the women's Born: December 7,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.

Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumptions; Meeting House and Couting House: Tolles' book has some reference to plainness.

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As in any collection of essays, the writing is uneven. The entries are very well written but some contain jargon, which makes them less clear and more difficult to : Jack N.

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82Quaker History about religious matters. While she seems to have attended meeting with some regularity, and went to early meeting when it was held in. Get directions, reviews and information for Minns Aesthetics LLC in Lubbock, TX.

Katharine Jager Rubinson has also published a book, just last month. From the description: "Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and.

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Verplanck's Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption (University of Penn sylvania Press, ), and most recently, Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye's Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship (Quaker Press, ). To the general public, Quaker values are probably most widely.