20 Facts About Edward Bullough

Edward Bullough was an English aesthetician and scholar of modern languages, who worked at the University of Cambridge.

Edward Bullough did experimental work on the perception of colours, and in his theoretical work introduced the concept of psychical distance: that which "appears to lie between our own self and its affections" in aesthetic experience.

In languages, Bullough was a dedicated teacher who published little.

Edward Bullough came to concentrate on Italian, and was elected to the Chair of Italian at Cambridge in 1933.

Edward Bullough was born in Thun, Switzerland, on 28 March 1880, to John Bullough and Bertha Schmidlin.

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At seventeen Edward Bullough moved to England, and in 1899 matriculated from Trinity College in the University of Cambridge, where he studied Medieval and Modern Languages.

Edward Bullough graduated BA in 1902, MA in 1906, after which he taught French and German at Cambridge colleges and lectured in the university.

In 1907 Edward Bullough gave a course of lectures in aesthetics, the first such at Cambridge, privately printed as The Modern Conception of Aesthetics.

Edward Bullough repeated the course annually "until shortly before his death".

Edward Bullough had an interest in parapsychology, and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.

In 1908 Edward Bullough married Enrichetta Angelica Marchetti, with whom he had a son and a daughter.

Relation between self and object remains a personal one and Edward Bullough thinks that a "concordance" between them is necessary for aesthetic appreciation.

Edward Bullough served for four years, finally as a Lieutenant of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

Edward Bullough published in the British Journal of Psychology two more papers on aesthetic theory, "The Relation of Aesthetics to Psychology" and "Mind and Medium in Art", and a review of experimental work.

In 1923 Edward Bullough resigned his university post, wishing to concentrate instead on Italian.

Edward Bullough was appointed University Lecturer in Italian in 1926.

Edward Bullough was elected to the Chair of Italian at Cambridge in March 1933.

Edward Bullough argues that because the European classical tradition is, for the Italian, the native tradition, "the 'national' inheritance of Italy lies at the same time embedded in the foundations of Europe".

In illustration, Edward Bullough proposes Roman law, the Renaissance, and the Romantic movement as "three contributions made by Italy to the patrimony of the civilised world".

Edward Bullough offers the contemporary fascist movement as a tentative fourth: a successor to the chair, Uberto Limentani, believed there was "no doubt" that Bullough sympathised with fascism.