I hope that, as you explore my website, you’ll want to learn more about the education of Aesthetic Realism, with its understanding of the world, the arts, and the human self. Studying it has made my life rich and happy, and it can do this for every person.
A few ill-motivated people have used the web to lie about Aesthetic Realism. I hope you’ll use your critical mind to see past these lies, and find out about the logical, beautiful, honest education that is Aesthetic Realism.
Here are just some of the many websites through which you can learn more!
→Public seminars at the Foundation, about women’s and men’s questions, art, music, education & more*
→Special theatrical and musical events*
*Note: These public events were suspended for the pandemic, but will resume. I can’t wait!
→Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism, by Eli Siegel
→The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method
→Aesthetic Realism Online Library
Every two weeks, a new issue of the periodical The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known is published. These issues include commentary by Chair of Education Ellen Reiss, lectures, essays, and poems by Eli Siegel, and papers by students of Aesthetic Realism from public seminars. The subjects that TRO deals with are wide-ranging, and include Education; Literature and Poetry; Economics; Mind, and the questions of men and women.
Here are some issues I’d like to call your attention to:
“Keats, Beauty, & Ourselves” – with the first part of Eli Siegel’s great lecture on the work of John Keats Poetry, Atmosphere, & Neatness
“How Aesthetic Realism Sees Art” – including a 1956 class about this subject
“For Our Time: Six Poems by Eli Siegel”
“The Coronavirus, a Woman of France, & Our World”
“The Self: Clever, Deep, & Confused”
“What Makes Imagination Kind or Cruel?”
“Timothy Lynch Represents America”
Further links:
Poems by Eli Siegel. Here are some that I love: “Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana,” “Quiet, Tears, Babies,” “Hell, What Is This About, Asked Again,” “The Lord Has Stolen Her Whims,” “Any Star and Shakey, “Eagles Go with the Fine News to Many Places.”
Friends of Aesthetic Realism: Countering the Lies
El Realismo Estético: a Spanish-language website about Aesthetic Realism
The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company
Chaim & Dorothy Koppelman Foundation
Bennett Cooperman and Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman: What We Learned from Aesthetic Realism
Aesthetic Realism Encourages Self-Expression
Len Bernstein: Photography, Life & the Opposites [See article: “What Do the World and People Deserve?”—with a discussion of Jacob Riis]
Arnold Perey, PhD—Aesthetic A New Perspective for Anthropology & Sociology [See: Aesthetic Realism vs. Racism]
Edward Green, PhD—Composer, Musicologist & Aesthetic Realism Associate
Barbara Allen—On the Aesthetic Realism Understanding of Music & Its Relation to Life
Alan Shapiro—Music Educator, Jazz Pianist, and Aesthetic Realism Associate
Lori Colavito: Educator, Professional Development, Teaching Artist
Donita Ellison–Art Educator, Aesthetic Realism Associate
Lynette Abel—Aesthetic Realism & Life [see report of a lecture by Eli Siegel on Miracle at Verdun]
Michael Palmer, writer [see article “Triumph and Sadness: Opposites in Ourselves and in Nat Fein’s Photo of Babe Ruth’s Farewell”
Women, Ethics and Aesthetic Realism
Kevin Fennell: Rock and Roll—and Life
Additional links about Aesthetic Realism