Here is a complete table of contents for my Web site. In my essay "I Believe this about Acting," is just some of what I learned about the urgent, needed comprehension of the art of acting and the human self. In "Hamlet Once More, Different" I describe hearing Eli Siegel read this play in 1963, and his new understanding of what Shakespeare intended. There are also reports of three lectures Mr. Siegel gave on Richard II. He is the greatest Shakespearean critic I know--enabling people to understand, enjoy, benefit from Shakespeare's works more than ever before.
Timothy Lynch, Derek Mali, Karen Van Outryve, Carol McCluer,
Anne Fielding, Carrie Wilson, Bennett Cooperman
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It gives me great pleasure to reprint Mr. Siegel's "Aesthetic Realism; or Is a Person an Aesthetic Situation?," an explanation he gave to Lewis Nichols of the New York Times Book Review during an interview.
You will also see here the classes I love to teach: the classes on Acting and on Marriage--and, how immeasurably useful Aesthetic Realism is to people's lives, including, so much, my own. My link to Aesthetic Realism Seminars includes the seminars of There Are Wives, the consultation trio in which I teach with my colleagues Barbara Allen and Pauline Meglino.
There is here, too, a beautiful story by my late husband, Sheldon Kranz, "My Mother Was a Girl," which represents so deeply what he learned from Aesthetic Realism about art and life, in classes with Eli Siegel. I know he would be thrilled for people to read it across America on the Internet! And there is much more!
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AESTHETIC
REALISM;
OR, IS A PERSON AN AESTHETIC SITUATION?
by
Eli Siegel
HAMLET ONCE
MORE, DIFFERENT
A Report by
Anne Fielding
RICHARD II AND ANGER by Eli Siegel
Reports by Anne Fielding
TIMOTHY
LYNCH, President of Teamsters Local 1205 and actor with the Aesthetic
Realism Theatre Company, writes in the Wall Street
Journal:
"As
chief negotiator for a large
union and as
a union organizer, I've seen many horrors that go on behind closed
factory
doors throughout the metropolitan area, including frequent industrial
"accidents" such as severed fingers and crushed bodies..."
"MY MOTHER
WAS A GIRL" by Sheldon Kranz 
"POEMS
OF SHELDON KRANZ" from the book Personal
& Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic Realists, with excerpt
from introduction by Eli Siegel
- August 15, 2004
performance
of "Ethics Is a
Force!": Songs about Labor
- NJ Herald picture of "Ethics Is a Force!"Songs about Labor
at the Botto House Labor Museum in Haledon, New Jersey.
- Presenters
of The
Poetry of Eli Siegel: A Centennial Celebration at the Enoch Pratt Library,
Baltimore, April
2002
- From American Ethics,
American Song at the
Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
- More pictures
to come!
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"Classic Mistakes in
Acting--& in Marriage": from
Ethics and the Great Art
of Acting, presented Saturday evening, Oct. 20, 2007, at the
Aesthetic Realism Fdn. by Anne Fielding & Bennett Cooperman
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"I
Believe This about
Acting" from the book Aesthetic Realism:
We  Have Been There
- Part 1.
Spontaneity and Plan: Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
- Part 2.
Sameness and Difference: "When I played Sasha in Chekhov's Ivanov..."
Eli Siegel's lecture
on Ibsen's A Doll's House:
A. Fielding & Derek Mali as Nora & Helmer
- Part 3.
Purpose in Art & Purpose in Life:
"Actors, like other artists, are
subject to the great danger of using their art to be superior to
and
contemptuous
of the 'ordinary world'..."
- Part 4.
"Eli Siegel: Do you think if there is no
crisis, things are boring? ...
Anne Fielding: That's one reason I want to act."
- Part 5. Eli Siegel's Theory of Opposites.
- Biographical
Information / 1969
Recording session for
animated film of Martha Baird's Thomas
Comma,
produced by Ken Kimmelman: A. Fielding & Timothy Lynch as Narrator
& Thomas
- Anne Fielding
& Jeffrey Carduner have spoken at many senior centers, and
given the talks in English & Spanish joined
by Dr. Jaime Torres.
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| At Eli Siegel Day in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park, August 16, 2002. Photo by Perry Hall. |
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