SATURDAY ♦ SEPTEMBER 19 ♦ 8 PM
H.G. Wells & The Beginning of Life
Discussing The Outline of History, Eli Siegel said,
“Wells talks of the time when geology and the rocks were azoic, meaning not allowing life….Aesthetic Realism goes on the principle that people are not alive enough. And the purpose of life is to be alive in the fullest sense.”
Why Does Our Baby Cry?; or, The Tumult of Arthur Bandini
Aesthetic Realism Discussion with His Parents
“Children are uncomfortable for the same reason philosophers are: they cannot make sense of their world.” –Eli Siegel
Sargent’s Madame X; Or, Assertion & Retreat in Women
By Lynette Abel
“In an Aesthetic Realism class I was asked, ’Are there two different motions in you at the same time—ostentation and retreat?’ In placing Madame Gautreau’s head in that dramatic profile, Sargent has put together technically these very opposites that have troubled women so much!”
Contri. $10
Featured image: Jackson Pollock, Number 8, 1949 (detail), Neuberger Museum
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