Description: Quaker Aesthetics : Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. From the dust jacket: "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 material goods. 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 material lives with their belief in the value of simplicity."
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Subject Area: Aesthetics
Book Title: Quaker Aesthetics : Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Des
Personalized: No
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Design
Item Length: 9.3in
Item Height: 1.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Anne A. Verplanck
Publication Name: Quaker Aesthetics : Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 172-192
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
