Dramatic Presentation
SATURDAY ♦ MARCH 21 ♦ 8 PM
The Orderly Extreme Discussing Shelby Foote’s novella Ride Out, about a jazz musician, Eli Siegel says:
“This is one of the best things about music I know—also about people….If you can let go and still be orderly, you’re an artist. The motto for jazz is: Professor Tiger.”
Motives Are about the World Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“If you, Mrs. Margolis, are both for and against your husband, the first thing to ask is, ‘Does the way I’m against this person go along with the way I’m for him?’ ” —Eli Siegel
Ellington and Aesthetic Realism By Edward Green—passages from his Introduction to the just published Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, edited by Dr. Green:
“I learned from Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by the great American poet and scholar Eli Siegel: art shows reality as it truly is—the oneness of opposites. There are, in Ellington’s finest works, a true composition of roughness and velvet smoothness; a sense of the orderliness of the world and its confusion….The Mooche [is] an example of the power of art to find something joyous in uncomfortable territory—the kind of territory most frequently used by people to hate the world. It is a thrilling affirmation of life
A Book Signing & Reception will follow this event!
Contri. $10
♦ ♦ ♦
Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
212.777.4490