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Aesthetic Realism Looks at Things: Discontent—A 1952 lecture by Eli Siegel, enormously relevant today:
“At the present time, there is more conscious discontent than perhaps at any other time in the world’s history. When people realize this, they will have to say, for their own protection: ‘We’ve got to have people contented in this world, or there will be danger.’”
Power & Tenderness in Men & Picasso's Minotauromachy. by the late Chaim Koppelman,artist & Aesthetic Realism consultant, whose Memorial Exhibition is now at the Terrain Gallery
“In this etching, power and tenderness—opposites that so often fight in men—are made one, beautifully, richly, movingly. A young girl holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a lit candle in the other, representing tenderness and the brave desire to see, and the bull-man with his raw power and his groping desire to see, join in the continuous form of an arch. Two aspects of the self are brought together, and it is thrilling.”
Are You Proud of Your Desire? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"If a person feels bad because he’s been unjust to something, would you say that is equivalent to a desire to be just to that something?...If you feel bad not doing something, does that mean you have a desire to do it?" —Eli Siegel
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We are honored to publish here the first part of a 1946 lecture by Eli Siegel, What Aesthetic Realism Is & Is Not, from his Steinway Hall series. He is describing how Aesthetic Realism differs from other approaches to mind then current. And as he does, we can see too that it differs vitally from the approaches current now.
Commenting on such persons as Freud, Horney, Adler, and Jung, Mr. Siegel points out that he is not, in this talk, discussing texts. He certainly did so, closely and richly, on other occasions. Here, speaking somewhat casually but exactly, he is giving an overview.
Eli Siegel respected the work of other philosophers and writers on mind—he loved, for instance, Kant, Descartes, Hegel, Locke—and saw Aesthetic Realism as coherent with good thought anywhere. But he did not want it to be made falsely akin to things it differed from hugely.... more
Note: The issues of TRO that include the lectures Eli Siegel gave in 1946 and 1947 in Steinway Hall, New York City, beginning with Issue 1735, are archived on the Aesthetic Realism & Mind page, as they are published.
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