Important Links Referencing Aesthetic Realism

Aesthetic Realism Online Library

Ellen Reiss

Ellen Reiss is the Chairman of Education of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, the instructor of its poetry class, and of the professional training classes for teaching Aesthetic Realism. Click here for biographical information.

You can see Ellen Reiss's writing on two poems of Robert Burns in "Jobs, Discontent, and Beauty": A commentary that relates the deepest feelings of Americans about our economy today to those of a great poet many years ago. Also see her description, as critic, of eight poems by Eli Siegel. The depth of feeling and precisely scientific approach of her poetic criticism is unrivalled among contemporary writers. And you can also view a report, written by two New York elementary school teachers, Barbara McClung and Lauren Phillips, describing Ms. Reiss's crucial class about how a child should be seen in a way that is fair to child, parent, and the world outside them.

Edward Green, Composer & Professor of Music  

Home Page: "Edward Green teaches at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation and at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has been on the faculty since 1984" Professor Green's many conference appearances and publications are noted in this site.

Selected Compositions by Edward Green

"Aesthetic Realism Explains the Beauty of Jazz and of Duke Ellington" by Carrie Wilson 

The "must see" Friends of Aesthetic Realism--Countering the Lies

Opening Statement by the Steering Committee. The "Big Lie" technique used to attack Aesthetic Realism.

The truth: including what the best critics and newspaper people have been writing for years; instances of Aesthetic Realism Classes taught by Ellen Reiss, and lectures and poetry by Eli Siegel.

"A Little Anthology of Comments (Some Funny We Hope) on Further Misrepresentations." This anthology includes a comment on why so many of the lies are written by one, or a few, anonymous people. It's called, "On the Pleasures and Advantages of Anonymity: An Ode."

See my writing, "Statement by Arnold Perey, Ph.D., Anthropologist and Aesthetic Realism Consultant."

And finally, the funny allegory "A Dramatic and Cautionary Tale about an Unknown and Very Unimportant Person" in case you're still wondering why anybody would want to lie about something as kind and needed as Aesthetic Realism.

Theatre and Acting

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company in New York City  "The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents groundbreaking talks by Eli Siegel, founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism, on plays such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Sheridan's School For Scandal, Ibsen's A Doll's House."

See the links to classes in Acting and Singing, articles on Drama including Ophelia in Hamlet & the great actors Edmund Kean and Rachel.

Anne Fielding, D.E. 

Home Page: "Anne Fielding, Actress, Aesthetic Realism Consultant"

"Aesthetic Realism; or, Is a Person an Aesthetic Situation?" A Short Explanation Given by Eli Siegel in an Interview with Lewis Nichols of the New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1969

Articles by Anne Fielding Online

Anne Fielding is Director of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company

Sheldon Kranz (1919-1980), Poet, Writer, Aesthetic Realism Consultant

Eli Siegel's Introduction to the book of poetry Personal and Impersonal: Six Aesthetic Realists

• Poems, beginning with "Sonnet for an Enemy"
• And see the poem "On Meeting Beauty"
• ... And more.

And the great short story, "My Mother Was a Girl"

To Home Page of Seldon Kranz's Website

Len Bernstein, Photographic Education 

Home Page: "An approach to art and life based on the Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel"

Candid Photography, and the Meaning of "Real-Life" published in Apogee Magazine

Miriam Mondlin, Aesthetic Realism Consultant

Aesthetic Realism and Self-Expression / Miriam Mondlin. "The very fact that I can speak on the subject of expressing oneself, I owe to Eli Siegel, the great American poet, critic and founder of the education Aesthetic Realism. As a person who stuttered painfully from the time I was three years old, my ability to express myself was very much hindered before I began to study Aesthetic Realism. Then, because Mr. Siegel explained the cause of this most troubling impediment to expression, my stuttering ended. Aesthetic Realism shows...what interferes most with our self-expression..."

Alice Bernstein, Journalist

Writer on the Aesthetic Realism opposition to racism and editor (as well as an author) of the new book, Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism.

NancyHuntting.net & More

Home Page: "Nancy Huntting: Aesthetic Realism Consultant"

Respect, Contempt, & Individuality. Discussing Pauli Murray (1910-1985), civil Rights activist & lawyer

How Can We Be Composed? On Bruegel's Painting Hunters in the Snow

What Is Triumph in Love? With a Consideration of Aphra Behn

Ruth Oron, Essayist, & Writer on Mideast Peace 

Home Page: "Articles in the News about Aesthetic Realism" 

Essays: "On Israel Where I Was Born"

The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method

Resources and Articles, Aesthetic Realism Foundation

Donita Ellison, Art Educator: "I am happy to describe here what I am learning from Aesthetic Realism about life, art, education

Leila Rosen, English Teacher:  Home Page

Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, Students Choose Knowing the World, Not Fighting with It  — This paper tells of how, through grammar/vocabulary lessons using the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, my 9th grade students learned to care for words and improved their writing.

The Success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Liking the World versus Contempt  About satire, using Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Nose" — originally given at a public seminar in the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method

Rev. Wayne Jack Plumstead

The way Rev. Wayne Plumstead, a valued colleague of mine, has written on religion should be studied by the worldwide community of social scientists. I submit as a sample his remarkable blog The Aesthetics of Religion.

Louis and Amy Dienes, Photographers 

Home Page: We are Amy Dienes, photographer and registered nurse, and Louis Dienes, photographer and poet. We have come to see Aesthetic Realism as true, comprehensively and essentially, about our own lives, the lives of people everywhere, and the arts we love: photography and poetry. 

Barbara Allen, Aesthetic Realism Consultant & Flutist

I am proud to display these links to a distinguished flutist and music educator, who also is my wife.  

Home Page: On the Aesthetic Realism Understanding of Music & the Flute, Marriage, Education, and the Economy

"The Beginnings of Music: The Opposites in the Flute"

It is from Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism that I learned the reason why people, since they lived in the caves of France over 34,000 years ago, have been impelled to make and play musical instruments. It is because these instruments enable us to put opposites together—beginning with ourselves and the world.

"Learn How Marriage Can Succeed in a Failed Economy" published in Caribbean Life

From coast to coast, marriages are suffering because of the failed economy. Women are speaking like this wife of twenty-five years, whose husband lost his job; she is quoted in an article in New York Newsday: "We fight all the time now...."

Lynette Abel, Aesthetic Realism Associate 

Home Page: Lynette Abel Aesthetic Realism Associate

Articles, including in the The Oneida Daily Dispatch, Oneida, NY; The Palladium Times, Oswego, NY; The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Mississippi; The Record, Troy, NY, etc. 

Seminars at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, including:

Despite Achievement & Praise--Why Can a Woman Feel Empty?" by Lynette Abel

"The Inability to Appreciate--What Does It Come From?"  by Lynette Abel

Michael Palmer, Writer & Aesthetic Realism Associate

"True Strength in a Man," with a discussion about Muhammad Ali, by Michael Palmer 

"Ego or Justice?— the Raging Fight in Every Man" by Michael Palmer: With Commentary on the American painter, John Sloan 

Weblogs of Note

A Truly Just Economy / Barbara Kestenbaum. "This writing expresses my deep conviction that ethics is more relevant to our economy than people have realized. How our economy can become ethical, and why it isn't, concerns me every day, and there are honest answers that I want you to know about."

Art & the Opposites / Chaim Koppelman, Dorothy Koppelman. "Here we write about how the opposites as described by Aesthetic Realism in "Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?" are integral to every work of art, in every medium and every place, and to our lives. This has been our experience".

Aesthetic Realism and Edith Wharton / Leila Rosen. Includes a discussion of Undine Spragg, the protagonist of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country.

Music, History, & Life /  Michael Palmer. " I have the pleasure of writing about the beauty in music, in historical facts, and in life..."

Pride, Shame, and Divorce / Meryl Simon. On Why Good will must be the basis for marriage! "I learned how to see myself and others after a divorce -- with good will as the oneness of criticism and encouragement -- through the principles of Aesthetic Realism, founded by Eli Siegel."

Drama Is Opposites / Anne Fielding. "Closeness and clash, for and against, passion and control, yourself and the world--these are opposites which Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism taught me are made one in the drama of all time. And we are trying to put together these same opposites in our everyday lives!"

Aesthetic Realism and Understanding Our Lives / Marion Fennell. "After many years of searching for a way to understand myself and other people, I met it in this kind, practical, philosophy of Aesthetic Realism, founded by the American poet and historian, Eli Siegel.

Introduction to the Aesthetic Realism Understanding of Anthropology

The Place of Aesthetics in Social and Cultural Anthropology [ http://www.perey-anthropology/soc_cult_anth.html]