The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory
that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of
architecture and design, and the history and present of empire.
Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book,"
and in many ways this is the best description of it. The
Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britain's
Department of Science and Arts, a venture organized by the Board of
Trade, and how the DSA exerted a powerful influence on the growth
of museums, design schools, and architecture throughout the British
Empire. But this is only the book's literal subject: in a
remarkable set of chapters, Dutta explores the development of
international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design
pedagogy, the technological distinction between craft and industry,
the relation of colonial tutelage to economic policy, the politics
and technology of exhibition, and competing philosophies of
aesthetics. His thinking across these areas is ignited by
engagements with Benjamin, Marx, Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham,
Kant, Mill, Ruskin, and Gandhi. A rich study in the history of
ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, The
Bureaucracy of Beauty converges on the issues of present-day
globalization. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first
century America, The Bureaucracy of Beauty offers a theory of how
things - big things -change.
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