Saturday, October 20, 8 PM
When Does Evil Begin? • In this 1953 lecture, Eli Siegel discusses passages from Nicholas Nickleby & Tom Jones, & the young Queen Elizabeth I, in relation to Henry James’s Turn of the Screw:
“The notion of evil that Aesthetic Realism has is the notion of evil Henry James somewhat had: it is the notion of people, in the process of being themselves, being unjust to what is not themselves. If you affirm, maintain, please yourself by being unjust in any form whatsoever to what is not yourself, evil is in operation.”
Liking the Way You See • Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“If liking ourselves is equivalent to liking the way we see what is not ourselves….Do you like the way you see people?”—Eli Siegel
Luminous & Hidden: Opposites in Robert Hupka’s Photograph of Toscanini & in Ourselves by photographer Vincent diPietro
“Unlike how I used dimness to hide from the world, Hupka uses darkness to have Toscanini come forth in bright relief and express himself for all the world to see.”
Contri. $10
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