Peter de bolla biography samples

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Biographical Information

Peter de Bolla has been Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics since 2009.

He has been a visiting Professor in Siegen, at Vanderbilt and New York University.  Between 2014-2018 he was Director of the Cambridge Concept Lab.

Research Interests

Eighteenth Century British cultural history; the history of aesthetics; conceptual history; philosophical aesthetics; digital knowledge.

Selected Publications

• The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights, Fordham University Press, 2013
• Aesthetics and the Work of Art, Ed.

  Peter de Bolla and Stefan Uhlig, Palgrave, 2008

• The Fourth of July and the Founding of America, Profile Books, 2007
• Land, nation and culture 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste, Ed. Peter de Bolla, Nigel Leask and David Simpson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• The Education of the Eye: painting, landscape and architecture in