Utilitarianism And The Art School In Nineteenth Century Britain

Download or read book Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Malcolm Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.