Bennett Cooperman & Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
What We Learned from Aesthetic Realism
With a consideration of the play in verse, Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay. First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC.
Through my study of Aesthetic Realism I’ve seen that we have two different ways of trying to be powerful. In his book Self and World, Eli Siegel writes: “Aesthetic Realism sees the largest purpose of every human being as the liking of the world on an honest basis.” This purpose, I learned, represents our true […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, New York City.
Aesthetic Realism explains our subject tonight, “True Pride & How We Can Have It,” definitively and in a way that is immediately useful to people. I learned we’ll be proud if we’re going after what Eli Siegel has described as man’s deepest purpose, to like the world honestly. In his book, Self and World, Mr. […]
Discussing the life and work of the tough and tender Jimmy Cagney. First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC.
Aesthetic Realism explains that every fight we have is based on either respect or contempt for the world. For example, when people fought the Nazis in World War II, they were fighting in behalf of respect—for justice. But most fights are based on the desire to have contempt, to be superior, and this desire causes […]
Edmun Kean’s acting and his life can help us answer that question. First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC.
I learned from Aesthetic Realism that a man will feel truly expressed when he’s consciously going after his deepest desire, which is there from birth: honestly to like the world, to see meaning in what is not himself, and this very much includes other people. The thing that stifles true expression in us is also […]
