Through Whittier-colored Glasses; or, Art is like Broccoli by Chuck Fager

Pleased though he was to find Arthur Edwin Bye’s A Friendly Conference on Art in Types & Shadows Issue #21 reprint of a 1915 article from the Friends Intelligencer, Fager ponders the naïve romanticism of those pre-World War I Quaker artists who shrank from “the extravagances of the Futurists or the Cubists.”  He asks if the only purpose of art to show the beautiful, even as the world operates at odds with the Quaker testimonies.  He hungers for Quaker artists whose spirit and creativity can challenge and subvert contemporary reality.