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I recommend that you visit Congressman Elijah E. Cummings' tribute to Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, in the US Congressional Record. Also see how the Aesthetic Realism method is used in art criticism and art history at the Terrain Gallery website. You can see biographies of the Faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation (including myself). And visit the Aesthetic Realism Foundation website for more information.

Aesthetic Realism; or, Is a Person an Aesthetic Situation? 

This link goes to my colleague Anne Fielding's Web site where you can read this short explanation by Eli Siegel. It was given in an interview with Lewis Nichols of the New York Times Book Review. It begins, "Aesthetic Realism sees the world and a person or self as an aesthetic situation. It also sees the various sciences and arts as aesthetic situations: painting, the drama, chemistry, geology have something in common. The question then is, what is an aesthetic situation?" ... Click here to continue "Aesthetic Realism; or, Is a Person an Aesthetic Situation? >>

The Opposites in Music Class  

This is the class I teach at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation with my colleagues Anne Fielding and Edward Green. Click here to continue "The Opposites in Music" at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation >>

Flute Classes and Lessons  

I teach the flute in my studio. For more information, click here >>

"The Beginnings of Music: The Opposites in the Flute"   

Article about what I've seen. The first opposites for a person are oneself and the world — and we are trying to do a good job with these opposites from birth....And in all music there are continuity and surprise...Click here to continue reading how Aesthetic Realism sees the beginnings of music. >>

Aesthetic Realism and Marriage Class

"Resentment in Marriage" / San Antonio Register    Part 1  /  Part 2  

"Learn How Marriage Can Succeed in a Failed Economy" / Caribbean Life Journal 11/10/98   

From coast to coast, marriages are suffering because of the failed economy. Women are speaking like this wife of twenty-five years, whose husband lost his job; she is quoted in an article in New York Newsday: "We fight all the time now" ... Click here to continue >>  

"The Mix-up in Marriage about Coldness and Warmth"

A wife wrote in her diary January 15, 1869: "[My husband] told me during the evening that he loved me above all else in the world, and these words made me immeasurably happy"....Wives have longed to hear these words from their husbands --"I love you above all else in the world" and have felt they represent the warmth, the passion they need in what they see as an uncaring world. And then there comes to be increasing coldness, distrust of each other, and pain. The question is why? ...  Click here to continue >>

"They Do Not Have to Die"  

There is a form of despair in students that has grown alarmingly in the last years: teenage suicide. Programs have been instituted in schools to teach students and teachers how to recognize the signs of a child thinking of suicide: listlessness, grades dropping, lack of interest, sudden angers, more and more isolation. "Specialists agree," reports the New York Times (March 14, 1984), "that no single theory can account for all suicides and no single measure can prevent them."

This is not true. Eli Siegel has described what talks place in a person who wants to kill himself. He wrote in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 229 ...  Click here to continue reading how Aesthetic Realism sees suicide in a young person >>

Ninth Graders Learn about Opposites in Reality, Literature and Themselves (West Orange Chronicle, NJ)   

Roosevelt Junior High School, West Orange, is one of the first schools in New Jersey to introduce a new educational approach, that of Aesthetic Realism, as it is taught by the 20th-century poet and critic, Eli Siegel... Click here to continue reading about the Aesthetic Realism teaching method >>

Teachers' Workshop: The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel As Teaching Method 

In these definitive principles, Eli Siegel, the greatest educator in history, gave teachers the method, so urgently needed, to enable students to learn successfully and to replace prejudice with knowledge and good will: (1) "The purpose of education is to like the world" (Self and World, p. 5). (2) Contempt — "the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it" — is the greatest interference to learning and the fundamental cause of all injustice. (3) "The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites"... Click here to continue >>

"Aesthetic Realism Shows Profit System Is Based on Contempt" By Barbara Allen & Arnold Perey

"We heard a report on CBS News Sunday Morning about what is happening to over 500 people who are going to be losing good paying jobs at the Kellogg cereal South Plant there in Battle Creek...." 

And I want you to know this important article about an economic situation affecting millions of husbands and wives: 

"Recovery Is Real Only if Ordinary Folks Can Feel It" By Timothy Lynch, head of Teamsters local 1205 / Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ) 

"Siegel described what the indicators of a real recovery are: 'If there is a recovery, everyone will see it, not just a few economists more pleased than they should be, perhaps, with what the basis of economics has been. If persons who rent apartments, buy groceries, buy clothes, see the recovery so much talked about, these persons will be convincing....Recovery begins in the kitchen, is expressed in the bedroom, is agreed to in the street.'"  ... Click here to continue >>

Larry Kranz Flute Pages: A major online resource for flutists, which includes numerous relevant links.

National Flute Association (United States)

Flute Resources in France in "Liste des Top-sites musicaux"

The Flute Society of New South Wales, Australia

The Flute Network, San Bernadino, California

A non-profit educational corporation which is now in its 21st year of serving flutists, flute teachers, and the people who love them.

Belgian Flute Pages: Many informative links in Europe and beyond.

Barbara Allen and husband Dr. Arnold Perey at the American Library Association
meeting in Chicago, IL where three new books (two shown here) were
made public: Gwe: Young Man of New Guinea--a novel against racism, by Dr. Perey,
Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism, edited and co-authored by Alice Bernstein,
and Were They Equal? a traditional African tale against prejudice with Tortoise,
Elephant, & Hippopotamus, as told and illustrated by Dr. Perey