The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company proudly presents
The Great Fight of EGO vs. TRUTH
Songs about Love, Justice,& Everybody's Feelings!
Rock 'n' roll, ballads, musical comedy, & more!
141 Greene Street in SoHo NYC 10012
Weblog of Aesthetic Realism Consultant Nancy Huntting. News, events, links on poetry, literature, the visual arts as explained by Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by poet and educator Eli Siegel.
“A father is most often in a dilemma. He wants to be severe; at the same time he wants to be a pal....The first thing a father has to see is that when he's nice to the child, and when he's severe, he should be the same person.”A Son Can See--Looking at the Rembrandt portrait Man with the Golden Helmet, Steve Weiner writes:
“I did not see my father as a mingling of dignity and uncertainty, or see that he himself could not make sense of these opposites. Aesthetic Realism taught me that the true way of seeing Sam Weiner is the way an artist would see him. Consider this man's thoughtful, stern face and glowing helmet….”Aesthetic Realism Foundation
Poetry Is a Making One of Opposites by Eli Siegel
with examples from Keats, Omar Khayyám, Blake, Poe, & more.
Louis Dienes, Dorothy Koppelman, Ellen Reiss,
Margot Carpenter, & Karen Van Outryve
read their poems
Ellen Reiss will talk on "Poetry, Anna Akhmatova, &
Our Two Ambitions"
How Much Feeling? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
Poems by Eli Siegel, including “To Dylan Thomas” --and--
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Personal and Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic Realists
we present poems by: Sheldon Kranz, Louis Dienes,
Nancy Starrels, Nat Herz, Martha Baird, Rebecca Fein
AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION
141 Greene Street NYC 10012 in SoHo off W. Houston