Background
Sparshott, Francis Edward was born on May 19, 1926 in Chatham, England.
Sparshott, Francis Edward was born on May 19, 1926 in Chatham, England.
BA, Manuscripts and Archives, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, tnfts: Plato and Joseph Margolis.
University of Toronto. 1950-1955; Assistant Professor, Victoria College, University of Toronto. 1955-1962; Associate Professor, 1958-1959, Professor 1964-1991, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Visiting Professor, University of Illinois. Urbana, 1966.
Francis Sparshott is a prolific writer both on general topics in aesthetics and on the aesthetics of particular art forms such as dance and film. His major books on aesthetics, The Structure of Aesthetics (1963), The Concept of Criticism ( 1967) and The Theory of the Arts ( 1982), combine to form a comprehensive survey of the major topics in aesthetics.