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Edward Green on Duke Ellington,
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Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism
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“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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Current issue Our Purposes Every Day—& Evolution • July 9, 2008
We continue to serialize Poetry Is of Man, by Eli Siegel. In this 1974 lecture his manner is informal, sometimes humorous, while he is, as always, careful and exact. He looks at an article that appeared nine years before Darwin's Origin of Species—a review of five books having to do with aspects of evolution. And we see the central principle of Aesthetic Realism—“All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves” —illustrated through questions concerning the coming to be of species, including that being who (before our gender-neutral time) was called Man.
... We also print an article by Aesthetic Realism associate Steve Weiner. It's part of a paper that he presented last month at a public seminar titled “Why Are People So ‘Difficult'—& Could It Have Anything to Do with Me?” ...more
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DRAMATIC PRESENTATION |
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SATURDAY, JULY 19, 8:00 PM
What Does It Mean to Be True to Oneself?
 ROMANCE & THE EVERYDAY IN EUGENE O'NEILL'S BEYOND THE HORIZON by Eli Siegel
“The question in all O'Neill's plays is: ‘What can I do so I won't falsify what I am?'...Honesty, according to Aesthetic Realism, is the most romantic, subtle thing that ever was. That is the meaning of ‘beyond the horizon.”
WHOSE APPLAUSE DO YOU WANT? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson of an Actor
"A man feels that privately he's not as good as he is publicly. Do you believe persons in the public eye suffer from that? " —Eli Siegel
PRIDE & MODESTY IN THE BEATLES' SHE LOVES YOU
By Christopher Balchin
“A big danger for a man—one I know intimately—is, when he thinks a woman approves of him, to become conceited and complacent. This song is anything but complacent—the way achievement and humility are in it is wonderful!”
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A BULLETIN—WHAT IS THE BEST PUNCTUATION FOR THE SELF?
By Eli Siegel, with illustrations
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PUBLIC SEMINAR |
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 6:30 PM
COMFORT, JUSTICE, OBLIGATIONS—CAN A MAN MAKE SENSE OF THESE?
Avi Gvili, Matthew D'Amico, Bruce Blaustein
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SPECIAL EVENTS — 2 PERFORMANCES — |
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SUNDAYS, AUGUST 24 & SEPTEMBER 28, 2:30 PM
The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents
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Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites,
& Our Greatest Hopes—
A Celebration!
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Why has Rock 'n' Roll affected people so much?
Singing & commenting on songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s to the present, we illustrate these sentences from an Aesthetic Realism lesson Eli Siegel gave to a rock musician:
Rock 'n' roll has the answer to people's problem of, on the one hand, wanting to be very private and sad, and on the other, wanting to have something like sunlight and public force. Every person has to make a one of the most secret thing in him and the most public thing. Rock 'n' roll shows it can be done.
Kevin Fennell • Carrie Wilson • Bennett Cooperman
Timothy Lynch • Christopher Balchin • Lynette Abel
Sally Ross • Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
Marion Fennell • Ann Richards
Alan Shapiro, keyboard • Rob Colavito, drums
Barbara Allen • Edward Green
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The Aesthetic Realism Foundation is in the midst of our Annual Fundraising Campaign for 2008!
