1st Edition

Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Malcolm Quinn Copyright 2013
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    Malcolm Quinn