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Books & DVDs

Here you can purchase books and DVDs that give a vivid, new sight of the world and our relation to it.

There is Eli Siegel’s Self and World, with chapters you can read here online, such as “Love and Reality” and “The Child.” You’ll find works by him and others—books of poetry, photography, children’s essays and stories, literary criticism, books on social justice, and more.

To buy a book or learn more, click the images below.

For orders outside the U.S., please email bookorders@aestheticrealism.org with the books you want, your name, and address, so we can calculate shipping and handling charges.

Self and World, by Eli Siegel
Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems, by Eli Siegel
Hot Afternoons Have Been In Montana: Poems
Hail, American Development. Poems
James and the Children
Books: Children's Guide to Parents & Other Matters by Eli Siegel
Children’s Guide to Parents & Other Matters
Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims
The Williams-Siegel Documentary, ed. by Ellen Reiss and Martha Baird
The Williams-Siegel Documentary
Cambridge-Companion-to-Duke-Ellington- edited by Edward Green-cover image
The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There—Six Artists on the Siegel Theory of Opposites
Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There
Black & White: A Poem with Photographs
Four Essays on the Art of the Print by Chaim Koppelman
Four Essays on the Art of the Print
Afternoon Regard for Photography by Eli Siegel
Afternoon Regard for Photography
Quintillions, by Robert Clairmont, with a new introduction by Ellen Reiss
Quintillions
Cover image: "Photography, Life, and the Opposites" by Len Bernstein
Photography, Life, and the Opposites
The Opposites Class, by Eli Siegel
The Opposites Class
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana [DVD]
Two Aesthetic Realism Papers
Personal & Impersonal: Six Aesthetic Realists. Poems by Sheldon Kranz, Louis Dienes, Nancy Starrels, Nat Herz, Martha Baird, Rebecca Fein; with a Critical Preface by Eli Siegel
Personal & Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic Realists
The Frances Sanders Lesson and Two Related Works, by Eli Siegel
The Frances Sanders Lesson and Two Related Works
Nice Deity. Poems by Martha Baird
Nice Deity
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      • Mind and Schools by Eli Siegel, Part 1
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    • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • What Is Aesthetic Realism?
    • Eli Siegel, Founder
    • Faculty
    • Some Background
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  • How to Study
    Aesthetic Realism
    • Classes
    • Consultations
    • Workshops for Educators
    • Outreach
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    • Saturday Night Presentations
    • Directions
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