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Speakers on Age, Parenting, & more. See Brochure


”Best U.S. Short”
Avignon/New York Film Festival, NY

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
Directed by Ken Kimmelman,
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This animated film will delight
& inspire children and adults.

Thomas Comma, new animated film by Ken Kimmelman

THOMAS COMMA
Directed by Ken Kimmelman

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker
Based on a story by poet
Martha Baird


The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner

"Light and Dark, Hiding and Showing
in Joseph Ma llord William Turner"
By Dorothy Koppelman


 
 

 

Duke Ellington
Edward Green on Duke Ellington,
and more


Self and World by Eli Siegel
Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism

 

 

 

“The deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis."

         — Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism

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The purpose of the not-for-profit Aesthetic Realism Foundation is to meet the urgent need for people throughout America and the world to see each other and reality fairly.  The means to that fairness is Aesthetic Realism... arrowmore

Aesthetic Realism Consultations   In consultations, a person’s individual life questions are understood and explained, through the principles of Aesthetic Realism....arrowmore

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Courses & Classes at the Foundation
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Study Poetry, Music, Art, Education, Acting, Singing, Anthropology, & more —

Winter 2012 Semester of Courses & Classes at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation:
For information about auditing classes, please call Registrar • 212.777.4490

 

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Pioneering dramatic and musical presentations take place at the Foundation, and elsewhere as part of the Foundation's Outreach Program. These productions—a new dramatic form with performance and comment—include "Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; or, Earthy Whirl," by Eli Siegel; "Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes!"; "Ibsen, Bach, & What Interferes with Love"' and more.

 

Sunday, February 12, 2:30 PM

 

Celebrating the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens,
the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents—

How Should a Person Be Seen?
or, Charles Dickens'
Hard Times

Factories - "Hard Times" by C. Dickens

A dramatic enactment of Eli Siegel’s great lecture,
with scenes from the novel; & songs—
about labor, learning, & the human heart

 

Contri. $15   

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Current issue arrow"New York, Poetry, & Our Lives" •  February 1, 2012  #1815

Here is the second section of the 1970 lecture New York Begins Poetically, by Eli Siegel. In it Mr. Siegel comments, chronologically, on particular aspects of New York City—sometimes historical events, sometimes instances of literature, not necessarily the most noted. Through these he presents New York as no one did before: we feel New York as a oneness of opposites. And, Aesthetic Realism explains, opposites as one is what poetry has, what all art and beauty have....

As Mr. Siegel talks about New York—with leisureliness, depth, and his richness of knowledge—he shows the city to be a tremendous relation of continuity and point, relation and individuality. It is New York, the same continuing city, through all the days, months, centuries; and yet how particular Peter Stuyvesant is, and the emotion of Leisler is, and the feeling and thought of Jonathan Edwards.

These opposites are an emergency for everyone. That’s because people have, with horrible everyday wrongness, felt the way to be an individual is not to see oneself as continuous with other people, connected with them, related to them. They’ve felt the way to be an individual is to see oneself as apart and superior. That feeling is contempt. And, Aesthetic Realism explains, from contempt come the loneliness, emptiness, shame, also cruelty, of people.

Seeing New York as at once richly continuous and grandly particular is a means of feeling what we need urgently to feel: that we are individual through our relation to the world and millions of other people—not through our ability to beat them out, look down on them, put them aside.   * more

 

The Right Of is edited by Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education, who is author of its commentaries.

 

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These feature dramatic readings of some of the great lectures on literature, ethics, economics, history, everyday life, and art given by Eli Siegel. There are reenactments of Aesthetic Realism lessons he taught, upon which Aesthetic Realism consultations today are based. And there are groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars in many fields—including jazz, architecture, photography, film—on this new way of seeing the arts, sciences, and reality itself.

Saturday, February 18, 8 PM

Painting, Music, & Our Lives!
Celebrating the 57th Anniversary of the Terrain Gallery

 

  Aesthetic Realism & Hieronymus Bosch by Eli Siegel

"When the painter Bosch took very disgusting, fearful things and related them to things that are more beautiful, it came from a desire to like the world.”

The Haywain by H. Bosch

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•  The Dramatic Opposites in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony by Karen Van Outryve


“Beethoven makes the trip up the scale from E to G (a trip of two notes) an adventure into the unknown.”

 

•  To Perceive Is to Be Critical • A reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson


"Do you believe that anybody can get anything greater than being understood? Is being understood a oneness of praise and dispraise?" —Eli Siegel

 

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•  A Presentation, by Architect Anthony Romeo, of a New Aesthetic Realism Foundation Project

 

Reception Follows  

Contri. $10

 

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Public Seminar
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On the first Thursday of every month the Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates present public seminars. Representative subjects include: “Real Communication in Marriage—How Can We Have It?”; “What's the Difference between Wowing People & Liking Yourself?”; “Kindness: Is It Strong ?”; “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds: Knowledge Wins, Prejudice Loses!”

 

Thursday, March 1, 6:30 PM

 

Acquisition vs. Understanding: The Big Debate in Every Man

 

Speakers: Jefferey Carduner, Ernest DeFilippis, Ken Kimmelman

 

Contri. $10

 

 

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The definitive source of published information from the 1930s to today about the philosophy founded
by El Siegel.

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Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism
Aesthetic Realism
and the
Answer to Racism

 

Photo by Dr. Arnold Perey, Papua New Guinea

A New Perspective
for Anthropology

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