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The Opposites in Sculpture, Music, & Life!

  Weight as Lightness: Aesthetic Realism Looks at Sculpture

	In this 1951 lecture, Eli Siegel spoke of works from Venus de Milo to Brancusi’s Bird in Space: “In sculpture there is a feeling of resistant nature opposed by insistent man, and man saying, ‘I can find form in you, and I’ll get that form out of you though you resist, though you are marble, bronze; though you’re anything, I’ll get beauty out of you!’”

   How Much Should You Understand Another Person? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson

"In proportion to how much we don’t want to understand fully, that much we’ll be lonely…. Mr. Locke, what would you like Sylvia James to understand about you that she may not?" --Eli Siegel

   Cheerfulness & Complaint in "Every Day I Have the Blues"
By Michael Palmer

“Even as the music wails and complains, the way singer Joe Williams and the Count Basie band work together with that great rhythm makes us feel anything but blue, depressed. In fact, we feel terrifically excited and composed at once!”

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