My
Aesthetic Realism
Seminars on:
Love, For
& Against a Man, Individuality,
Criticism,
Courage, Conscience,
Selfishness & Generosity,
Liking People, Hope, Power, & the novel
Pride & Prejudice
Terrain
Gallery
Art talks on:
Cezanne
Bruegel
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Welcome
to
my web site, where I'm glad to bring
to people what I've learned
from
Aesthetic Realism, the education founded in 1941 by the American poet
and
critic Eli Siegel.
I'm proud to have seen that
Aesthetic Realism is true:
it
explains the human mind and the world we are in with new respect and
scientific
exactness. Studying it enables individual men and women to be fully
what they hope to be!
What
Aesthetic Realism
Is
I
grew up near Cincinnati and
majored in English
Literature at Denison University; moved to New York City and worked as
a researcher for a news magazine and had an antique store. Of course,
there is much more to tell, which I do in seminar papers published
here.
Then at 27 I
began to study Aesthetic Realism, which is based on these principles
stated
by Eli Siegel:
1)
The deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or
accurate basis.
2)
The greatest danger for a person is to have contempt for the world and
what is in it....Contempt can
be defined as the lessening of what is different from oneself as a
means of self-increase as one sees it.
3)
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of
opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
Here is a seminar paper based on these principles
presented recently with Carrie Wilson and Karen Van
Outryve at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City: Can A Woman Be Both
Serious and Lighthearted?
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by
Arnold Perey,
Anthropologist,
Aesthetic Realism Consultant
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Pictures:
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