Dutton may refer to:

Places[link]

• Dutton, Alabama, town in the United States
• Dutton, Cheshire, village in England
• Dutton, Lancashire, village in England
• Dutton, Montana, town in the United States
• Dutton/Dunwich, Ontario, town and municipality in Canada
• Dutton, South Australia
• Dutton, Michigan
• Dutton, Ontario

People[link]

• Brian Dutton (born 1985), English footballer
• Charles S. Dutton (born 1951), American actor
• Clarence Dutton (1841–1912), American geologist and US Army officer
• Denis Dutton (1944–2010), philosopher
• Francis Dutton (1818–1877), past premier of South Australia
• Frank Dutton, South African policeman
• Henry Dutton (1796–1869), American politician and the 38th Governor of Connecticut
• James Dutton (astronaut) (born 1968), Jr. (20 November 1968, Eugene, Oregon) is a NASA astronaut pilot of the Class of 2004 (NASA Group 19), and a test pilot in the US Air Force with the rank of Colonel
• John Dutton (disambiguation)
• John Dutton Frost (1912–1993), British soldier
• Lawrence Dutton (born 1954), American violinist
• Peter Dutton (born 1970), Australian politician
• Phillip Dutton (born 1963), Olympic-level equestrian rider. He is a dual olympic gold medalist who formally competed for Australia but now competes for the United States
• Piers Dutton (died 1545), British lord
• Ray Dutton, British rugby league footballer
• Red Dutton (1898–1987), former NHL President
• Reginald J. G. Dutton, English inventor of Dutton Speedwords
• Robert Dutton (born 1950), has served as the California State Senate Republican Leader since 2010 and as the Senator representing the 31st Senate District since 2004, after serving two years as a State Assemblyman for the 63rd Assembly District
• Simon Dutton, British actor, best known for playing the title role of Simon Templar (alias The Saint) in a series of Australian-produced television films in 1989
• Sir Thomas Dutton (1421–1459), British knight
• Thomas Dutton, American musician, lead vocalist of Forgive Durden
• Tim Dutton Wooley, founder of Dutton Cars

Other[link]

• E. P. Dutton, an American book publishing company, since 1986 split into two imprints:
  • Dutton
  • Dutton Children's Books
• Dutton Cars, British company who manufactured kit cars between 1970 and 1989
• Dutton Speedwords, an auxiliary language and shorthand writing system

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Denis Dutton
Born	(1944-02-09)9 February 1944 Los Angeles, United States of America
Died	28 December 2010(2010-12-28) (aged 66) Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation	Academic, Web Entrepreneur, Media Commentator
Nationality	American and New Zealander
Subjects	Art, evolution, media

Denis Laurence Dutton (9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010)^[1] was a philosopher of art, web entrepreneur and media activist. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was also a co-founder and co-editor of the websites Arts & Letters Daily, ClimateDebateDaily.com and cybereditions.com.^[2]

Life and career[link]

Denis Dutton was born in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 1944, as the second of four children of William and Thelma Dutton,^[3] who were booksellers and founded what became Dutton's Books, a chain of independent bookstores.^[1] He grew up in North Hollywood, graduated from North Hollywood High School,^[3] and was educated at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1966 and his PhD in philosophy in 1975.^[1] Between taking these degrees, he went to India with the Peace Corps and learned to play sitar.^[1] Dutton taught at several American universities, including the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Michigan–Dearborn, before emigrating to New Zealand.

Dutton started teaching at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, in 1984.^[1] From 2008 to 2010 he was the Head of the Philosophy school in an unofficial capacity and acted briefly as Head of Humanities. At its December 2010 graduation ceremony, the University of Canterbury awarded Dutton a research medal for his work.^[4]

On 28 December 2010, Dutton died from cancer.^[5][6]

Arts & Letter Daily[link]

Dutton was best known for the web aggregation site Arts & Letters Daily, which he founded in 1998 and which secured him a place among "the most influential media personalities in the world."^[7] The site, described as "the first and foremost aggregator of well-written and well-argued book reviews, essays, and other articles in the realm of ideas,"^[8] features links to articles across the web about literature, art, science, and politics, for which Dutton wrote pithy teasers.^[1] In recognition of Arts & Letters Daily, Steven Pinker called Dutton a visionary for recognizing that a website "could be a forum for cutting-edge ideas, not just a way to sell things or entertain the bored."^[3]

Cybereditions[link]

Dutton served as executive director of Cybereditions, a print on demand publishing company he founded in 2000^[9] which specializes in new and out-of-print copyright works, mostly of a scholarly nature. The editorial board of the company has included other academics such as Frederic Crews, Anthony Grafton and Marjorie Perloff.^[10]

Aesthetics[link]

Dutton wrote on authenticity in art and distinguished between nominal authenticity, in which a work of art is correctly attributed to its author rather than being a forgery, and expressive authenticity, where a work is a true expression of an individual’s or a society’s values and beliefs.^[11]

In his book The Art Instinct (2010)^[12] Dutton opposes the view that art appreciation is culturally learned, claiming instead that art appreciation stems from evolutionary adaptions made during the Pleistocene.^[13] He set out abbreviated versions of his theory in a 2009 Google Talk lecture^[14] and a 2010 TED talk.^[15]

Dutton also argued that progress in the arts and sciences had declined, especially since around 1800.^[16]

Criticism of academic prose[link]

As editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, Dutton ran the Bad Writing Contest, which aimed to "expose 'pretentious, swaggering gibberish' passed off as scholarship at leading universities."^[3] In 1995, the contest was won by Homi K. Bhabha and Fredric Jameson.^[17] In 1998, the contest awarded first place to University of California-Berkeley Professor Judith Butler, for a sentence which appeared in the journal diacritics.^[18] Butler defended her work against the charges of academic pedantry and obscurantism in the pages of the New York Times.^[19] Dutton then ended the contest.

The Bad Writing Contest emerged in an intellectual climate dominated by fallout from the Sokal affair,^{[20] [21]} in which the alleged opaqueness and obscurity of postmodern writing came in for criticism: Edward Said, for instance, deplored "diminishment and incoherence" in the writings of some of his colleagues and Martha Nussbaum condemned academic writing that was "ponderous and obscure."^[22]

Politics and activism[link]

Dutton supported "conservative ideas"^[23] and was a member of the Libertarian Party for some years.^[3]

Dutton was one of the founding members and first chair of the New Zealand Skeptics. His skepticism led him to believe that "climate change is still an open question."^[24]

He was also a passionate supporter of public radio. In the early 1990s he founded the lobby group The New Zealand Friends of Public Broadcasting in response to proposals to devolve New Zealand's two non-commercial public radio stations.^[25]

In 1995 he was appointed to the board of directors of Radio New Zealand, where he served for seven years.^[26] After concluding his term as a director, Dr Dutton and Dr John Isles issued a report criticising Radio New Zealand for loss of neutrality in news and current affairs, failure to adhere to charter and opposed to contestable funding of broadcasting.^[27]

Bibliography[link]

Dutton's publications include:

• Denis Laurence Dutton (1974). Art and anthropology: aspects of criticism and the social studies. University of California, Santa Barbara. 
• Denis Dutton (1983). The Forger's art: forgery and the philosophy of art. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04341-3. 
• Denis Dutton, Michael Krausz (1985). The Concept of creativity in science and art. M. Nijhoff. ISBN 90-247-3127-5. 
• Denis Dutton (2003). Jerrold Levinson. ed. "Authenticity in Art". The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press). http://www.denisdutton.com/authenticity.htm. 
• Charles A. Murray, Denis Dutton, Claire Fox (2008). In Praise of Elitism. Centre for Independent Studies, The. ISBN 1-86432-166-0. 
• Denis Dutton (2009). The art instinct: beauty, pleasure, & human evolution. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-953942-1. 
• Michael Krausz, Denis Dutton, Karen Bardsley (2009). The idea of creativity. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-17444-3. 

References[link]

External links[link]

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• An interview about The Art Instinct on The Marketplace of Ideas

Paul Dutton (born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1943) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist.

Early life and career[link]

A member of the legendary Four Horsemen sound poetry quartet (1970–1988), along with Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and the late bpNichol, Dutton joined his soundsinging oralities and harmonica-playing to John Oswald’s alto sax and Michael Snow’s piano and synthesizer in the free-improvisation band CCMC (1989 to the present).^[1] He has recently appeared in poetry festivals in Germany, France, and Venezuela, and at music festivals in Canada, Holland, and Argentina. An accomplished writer, in addition to his published books, he has written dozens of published essays on music and writing.

Dutton has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including fellow oral sound artists Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Phil Minton, and David Moss in the group Five Men Singing, John Butcher, Bob Ostertag, Phil Durrant, John Russell, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Günter Christmann, Thomas Charmetant, Xavier Charles, and Jacques Di Donato. His soundsinging has been called "fascinating, inventive, grippingly obsessive" (The Wire).

"(Five Men Singing) exposes every note, tone, timbre and texture that can be vibrated by the uvula, dredged from the throat and buzzed from the cheeks and lips."^[2]

More recently, he formed Quintet à Bras in company with two French poets and two French instrumentalists, and in 2009, Mr. Dutton performed at The Scream In High Park, which is an annual literary festival in Toronto.

Criticism[link]

• "The hybridity of Dutton’s æsthetic accomplishments is readily apparent on this CD’s (Mouth Pieces) opening track, Reverberations. Framing the words "gong" and "going" with the use of vowel-generated overtones, Dutton crystallizes form and content in a perfectly balanced musical and literary mantra."^[3]

• "Whether reading or gurgling, solo Dutton remains compelling."^[4]

Awards[link]

• bpNichol Chapbook Award, 1989.
• Villa Waldberta Scholarship, Cultural Department, City of Munich, 1998
• Dora Mavor Moore Award, Toronto Association of Performing Arts, 2007

Anthologies[link]

• Best Canadian Essays 1990. (Fifth House Publishers, 1990).
• Hard Times: A New Fiction Anthology. (Mercury Press, 1990).
• Carnival. (Insomniac Press, 1996).
• The Echoing Years: Contemporary Canadian & Irish Verse (School of Humanities Publications, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2007)
• In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Polestar, 2005)
• Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu: Stimmen und Klänge der Lautpoesie (Book-CD), (Scholzverlag, 2002)

Books[link]

• The Book of Numbers (Porcupine's Quill, 1979).
• Right Hemisphere, Left Ear (Coach House Press, 1979).
• Visionary Portraits (Mercury Press, 1991) ISBN 978-0-920544-80-8
• Aurealities (Coach House Books, 1991) ISBN 0-88910-414-X
• The Plastic Typewriter (Underwhich Editions, 1993) ISBN 0-88658-087-0
• Partial Additives (Writers Forum, c/o Underwhich Editions, 1994) ISBN 0-86162-551-X
• Several Women Dancing (Mercury Press, 2002) ISBN 978-1-55128-096-7

With The Four Horsemen[link]

• Horse D'Oeuvres (General Publishing, 1975)
• The Prose Tattoo (Membrane Press, 1983)

[edit] With Sandra Braman

• Spokesheards (Longspoon Press, 1983)

Recordings[link]

• Blues, Roots, Legends, Shouts & Hollers (Starborne Productions LP, STB-0180, 1980)
• Mouth Pieces (OHM Éditions, 2000) ISBN: AVTR 021
• Oralizations (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2005) ISBN: AM 130

References[link]

External links[link]

• Five Men Singing [1]
• so'nets [2]
• Coach House Press [3]
• poets.ca [4]
• The Mercury Press [5]

Phillip Dutton
Phillip Dutton and Truluck at Capability's Classic during the cross country phase of Burghley Horse Trials 2009
Personal information
Medal record Equestrian Gold Atlanta 1996 Team Event Gold Sydney 2000 Team Event

Phillip Peter Dutton, OAM^[1] (born 13 September 1963) is an Olympic-level equestrian rider. He is a dual olympic gold medalist who formally competed for Australia but now competes for the United States.^[2]

Biography[link]

Dutton was born in Nyngan and was educated at Newington College (1976–1979).^[3] He pursued his passion for riding in Australia until 1991 when he moved to the United States to train in a more internationally competitive environment. In the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games he was a member of Australia’s Gold Medal Three-day Eventing Team and he has now represented Australia in three Olympics and four World Equestrian Games. He is very active on the U.S. eventing circuit, winning the USEA Leading Rider of the Year title in 1998, and 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2005 he was also the number one FEI World Event Rider. Phillip and his wife, Evie, live in Avondale, Pennsylvania with Evie's daughter and their twin girls. Dutton's farm, True Prospect Farm, is located in West Grove, PA. In 1997, Dutton was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.^[4]

In 2006, Dutton announced that he would be changing his citizenship, allowing him to ride for the United States.^[5] In his letter to the EFA, informing them of the change, he wrote: “I would like to thank the EFA for everything they have done for me and my career as a Three-Day Event rider... It has been an honour to be a member of the EFA and to represent Australia internationally for the past 12 years.”^[6]

In April 2007, Dutton took second at the famous 4 star event the Rolex Kentucky Three Day, as his first time riding for the U.S. Later that year, he won the team gold and individual silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games on Truluck.

In April 2008, Dutton broke the "Rolex Hex" winning his first Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. Dutton competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified from the individual event for competing with boots that were too heavy.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• http://www.phillipdutton.com Dutton's personal website

Simon Dutton is a British actor, best known for playing the title role of Simon Templar (alias The Saint) in a series of Australian-produced television films in 1989. In 2007, he joined the cast of British sitcom Not Going Out as recurring character Guy, but was written out at the end of season 2.

Dutton was married to actress Betsy Brantley but later divorced her. He is now married to actress Tamsin Olivier, the daughter of Laurence Olivier.

Filmography[link]

Other TV credits include:

• Doctor Who: "The Time of Angels"
• Death Train (2005)
• The Professionals
• By the Sword Divided, Robin of Sherwood
• Bergerac
• Lovejoy
• Holby City
• Not Going Out
• 1911

External links[link]

• Simon Dutton at the Internet Movie Database

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