Bennett Cooperman & Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
What We Learned from Aesthetic Realism
With a discussion of the life and work of the great 19th century actor Edwin Forrest. First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
Though men may not know it, each of us has a hope to be large, to have big, accurate feeling and comprehensive thought about people and the world. Eli Siegel, founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, wrote: There is…a great tendency of the self to be as large as it can be, to be as […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, New York City.
In his definitive lecture, “Mind and Importance,” Eli Siegel said: If you are important because you feel that what’s real is important, that other people can be important…then your importance is good…Every time we make ourselves truly important, we are making something besides ourselves important, whether we know it or not. This is utterly different from what […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
Aesthetic Realism taught me that every person’s deepest desire is honestly to like the world different from ourselves. We were born to know and see meaning in people and the things we meet, and when we have this purpose we honestly respect ourselves. We come from the whole world and have its structure in us—”The […]
With a consideration of Sir Walter Scott’s novel, “Ivanhoe.” First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
Growing up, I thought courage was either an extraordinary heroic act like rescuing someone, or being honest in a difficult situation where you put yourself on the line. And neither of these was for me. I did not feel courageous—instead I saw it as prudent and smart to get what I could from people and […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
I’ve seen that the education of Aesthetic Realism can enable marriage to be the romantic, kind thing men and women so much hope for. One of the things people are desperate for in marriage—and also despair about—is that they will be able to talk to each other deeply, have exciting, honest conversations. And despite what […]
