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Professionals in many fields, including education, the arts, business, labor, and healthcare, have written about the vital importance of Aesthetic Realism for people everywhere. For a selection of recent articles on the Aesthetic Realism teaching method, click here. On the world events, and more—click here.

Here you can also read many historic articles, letters, columns, op-ed pieces from the thousands published in the last decades:

ON EDUCATION. Teachers describe how the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method enables students to learn with unparalleled success.

WAR & PEACE.  International authors write on what is necessary for peace to be—study of the fight in every person between contempt and respect.

LOVE & the FAMILY. What is love, really, and how can it succeed? What would it mean to see the people close to us with greater depth and kindness?

YOUTH & AGE, MEN’S & WOMEN’S ISSUES—& MORE.
  • Is the desire to see meaning in the world and people as strong at 90 as it was in childhood?
  • What do young people hope for most? —And, what can stop the anger and violence in our schools?
  • What is true strength in a man? What kind of power does he want?
  • How do we interfere with our own self-expression? In particular, is there a cause of stuttering that is within oneself?
  • What explains the eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia? Do they arise from a young woman’s attitude to the world?
  • And—why has there been intense anger, or “road rage,” on our highways?

ART & LIFE. Professionals and scholars in the visual arts, architecture, film, drama, photography, poetry, literature, music explain how the oneness of opposites makes for beauty, and the vital importance of art in answering the questions of people’s lives.

WKCR interview of Eli Siegel on “The World of Art” conducted by Peter Gorlin (Columbia University) in three parts:

Part I: The Intrepid As Contemporary
Part II: What Is Aesthetic Realism
Part III “Somewhere This”: About It

Other important writings on Eli Siegel and his work:

  • The New York Times Book Review, March 23, 1969, by Kenneth Rexroth
  • Greenwich Village Weekly News, 1933, no. 3, “Village Portraits—Eli Siegel,” by J. Dosbriora Irwin
  • The SUN Baltimore, MD, Thursday, April 25, 2002, by Rob Hiaasen, SUN STAFF
  • The Washington Post, Washington, DC, August 16, 1978 by Michael Kernan
  • The Evening Sun, Baltimore, MD, Wednesday, July 28, 1982, by James H. Bready
  • New Mexico Quarterly, August 17, 1957, “Whole in Brightness,” by Walter Leuba
  • Smithsonian Book Review, February, 1982, by Linda Ann Kunz
  • Saturday Review, August 17, 1957, Selden Rodman
  • newsART—The Smith, by William Packard
  • Letter by Ralph Hattersley, critic of photography
  • Letter by William Carlos Williams, American poet

Further Resources about Aesthetic Realism:

  • The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method
  • Teaching Indian Culture in the United States
  • Friends of Aesthetic Realism—Countering the Lies
  • Photographic Education through Aesthetic Realism
  • On the Place of Aesthetic Realism in Culture
  • “Is a Person an Aesthetic Situation?”
  • Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology
  • John Singer Sargent’s Madame X
  • Self-Expression and What Interferes
  • The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company
  • “A Woman’s Determination: What Makes It Right or Wrong?”

Film by Ken Kimmelman

Here we present a work of art that—more than any other we know—can bring people the true composure and strength of mind and feeling everyone is thirsting for. See the stirring film of Eli Siegel’s prize-winning poem Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana.


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These exciting definitions are philosophic, powerfully logical, and always enormously important for our lives.

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  • “Books”—an Essay for Children

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  • “Man and Nature in New York and Kansas”

  • “Hawthorne’s ‘The Man of Adamant’”

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    Aesthetic Realism
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