Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes:

This new issue of TRO is tremendously kind and urgent. In it you’ll learn how your personal hopes, desires, and confusions have to do with some of the biggest matters in human history and culture. The relation of art and science, of emotion and logic, is seen here in a way that’s new, exact, and ever so needed. Various situations in America now are explained truly, as they are nowhere else. Knowledge that can strengthen everyone and our nation itself is in “Art, Science, & Love for Truth,” the latest issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

Here is the final section of Art Is within Science, a 1969 lecture by Eli Siegel, from his magnificent, groundbreaking series on the relation between art and science.

What is that relation? The two have seemed hugely different. They have seemed in different compartments of human thought—with science standing for logic, knowing, fact, truth; and art for feeling, imagination, beauty, value. And just as people have felt a stark separation between art and science, they have felt a rift in themselves between knowledge and emotion, exactitude and imagination. The rift has been, in a sense, taken for granted, yet it has made people ashamed, agitated, deeply unsure.

These, knowledge and emotion, are opposites. And the division in oneself between them can end through the study of Aesthetic Realism and this principle, true and kind for all time: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” …Read more