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Malcolm Quinn
Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain [PDF ebook]

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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.

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Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781317321224 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4444530 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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