Bennett Cooperman & Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
What We Learned from Aesthetic Realism
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, New York City
The blade of certainty and the smoke of doubt. — Eli Siegel, “Prosody Is Ours” The way men are decisive and indecisive has confused and even tormented us—it did me. I learned there can be a good kind of indecision in a man that comes from his desire to know, the thing in him that […]
First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism have explained something completely new about an emotion that troubles people very much—anger. We have two kinds of anger, one makes us strong and the other makes us weak. In The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #188, Mr. Siegel writes: Aesthetic Realism says that a good anger has […]
Originally presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
A recording I love is the great Louis Armstrong singing “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” by George and Ira Gershwin. His solo rendition comes in the midst of a duet with Ella Fitzgerald from the 1956 album Ella & Louis, one of my all-time favorites. And I think the very opposites we studied […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
The question “Can I be strong and kind at once—and do I want to be?” is huge in the life of every man. I wanted to be a kind person, but when push came to shove, I thought being kind was sappy and made you soft.
First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
In The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known Eli Siegel writes: The pleasure we are proudest of, the emotion that is largest, arises from knowing the world as it is, wholly as it is, exactly as it is, tremendously as it is, poetically as it is, scientifically as it is, personally as it is. […]
