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Peter de Bolla is Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics at the University of Cambridge.
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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