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From Seminars on: Love I, Love
II, Knowing Oneself, For & Against, Individuality,
Criticism,
Courage, Conscience,
Selfishness & Generosity,
Liking People, Hope, Power, & the novel Pride
& Prejudice
Terrain Gallery
Art talks on:
Cezanne, Bruegel
LINKS
Some history:
The Huntting Family
Aesthetic Realism
Foundation
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Welcome
to my website, 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. At age 27 I
began to study Aesthetic Realism, which is based on these principles
stated
by it's founder, great American poet and critic, 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.
One of my papers based
on these principles,
presented with my colleagues Carrie Wilson and Karen Van
Outryve at a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in NYC,
is: Can
a Woman Really Know Herself--& Does She Want To?
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