Aesthetic Realism Dramatic Presentation
Saturday, July 18, 8 PM
Emotion: We Begin with Humor
Looking at anecdotes from Bennett Cerf’s collection Try & Stop Me,
Eli Siegel said:
“There are stories in which somebody has been pontificating and then, suddenly, the tone changes, like an organ changing into a squeak. These elements are in us every hour—we are wide and narrow, majestic and most picayune. It is so in art; it is so in humor.”
The Aesthetics of Evolution
By anthropologist Arnold Perey
“Darwin’s theory of evolution is a oneness of continuity and discontinuity. Look at your own hand; there is nothing quite like it in the rest of creation. Yet, go to a natural history museum and you will see the front feet of large dinosaurs which also have five digits.”
But There Is More!
A Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“Do you think there’s been a tendency in you to sum people up? No being can be summed up just like that. For instance, if you look at a poodle, there’s mystery there. Simply by being, the poodle will have the unknown about him or her.” —Eli Siegel
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