Bennett Cooperman & Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
What We Learned from Aesthetic Realism
With a consideration of “The Pathfinder” by James Fenimore Cooper. First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
I once thought kindness and strength had nothing to do with each other. I wanted to be kind when, in high school, I joined a program to teach poor children in Ft. Lauderdale to read. But I felt to be strong you had to look out for yourself, beat out other people, get what you […]
With a consideration of Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black. First presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
In an Aesthetic Realism class some years ago, Class Chair Ellen Reiss asked me: “Do you think you are generous or grudging?” At the time, I didn’t see how much that question had my whole life in it—these opposites had battled in me. For example, in 1973 I was cast in a play at a […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, New York City.
“Do you think everyone is in a fight between great emotion and little emotion?” That is a question I was asked in one of the classes I attend for Aesthetic Realism consultants and associates, taught by Ellen Reiss. And the answer, I’ve learned, is yes. The deepest purpose of every person, Aesthetic Realism shows, is […]
First presented in a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC
I learned from Aesthetic Realism that a man needs to do all he can to understand his anger in order to be proud of himself. And the main thing we need to understand is that we have two completely different kinds of anger. In his lecture, Aesthetic Realism And Anger, Eli Siegel said: In a […]
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 […]
