Saturday, May 17, 2014, 8 PM
How Do People Want to See People? or, It Has to Be Aesthetics
A historic lecture by Eli Siegel, in which he discussed James Stephens’ story of 1912 “The Wolf at the Door”:
“The present economic situation will not change essentially for the better until people like the way they are seen, and like the way they see others!”
Do You Want to Be In a Contest With Things?
Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“What is more important: to be all you can be, or to beat out other people?”—Eli Siegel
The Honesty of Art: Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters
By photographer Dan McClung
“As I studied the way Van Gogh has the weathered hands of these men and women meet the objects around them, I was moved and thought more deeply about the feelings of my father, a farmer in the Midwest.”
And more…
Contri. $10.
Featured image: Andy Warhol, “Dollar Sign” (detail)
Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
212.777.4490