The Aesthetic City21 Jul 2022

#16 - Michael Spicher, Aesthetics Research Lab: The Importance of Aesthetics, Beauty vs. Taste, the Value of Interdisciplinary Research

Michael Spicher is a writer and philosopher, who is specialised in art and aesthetics. He is based in Boston and earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. He currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art & Design and Boston Architectural College. Apart from that he also founded the Aesthetics Research Lab in 2016, with an excellent website that showcases a lot of fascinating research and projects that showcase the importance of aesthetics in our everyday lives. He is currently co-editing a book about digital fashion for Bloomsbury Publishing. This episode dives deep into the questions of what aesthetics are, why they are important, the difference between beauty and taste and the great value of what can be achieved when various fields of research are combined.

Visit Michael's website here: Aesthetics Research Lab

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Michael is the Aesthetics Area Editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Books

In this episode, Michael talks about the following books:

The survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff

The Abuse of Beauty, Arthur C. Danto

Beauty: A Quick Immersion, Crispin Sartwell

The Aesthetic Brain, Anjan Chatterjee

Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr

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