Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84893-298-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

The mid-nineteenth century saw the introduction of publicly funded art education as an alternative to the established private institutions. Quinn explores the ways in which members of parliament applied Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy to questions of public taste.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quinn, Malcolm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘Reading Reynolds with Bentham’: the Idea of the Art School in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 2 ‘Prejudice Aside’: Jeremy Bentham’s Moral Economy of Taste; Chapter 3 ‘Directing the Art of the Country’: Henry Cole’s Laws Of Public Taste; Chapter 4 The End of the Experiment; Chapter 5 Taste Between Ethics and Aesthetics; Chapter 6 The Return of Adam Smith; epi Epilogue;

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Quinn