Here on this website are articles I've written to show the large value of Aesthetic Realism in under-standing matters that interest and concern people everywhere.  The great education presented on this website was founded by the American poet, critic, and scholar Eli Siegel, with whom I was honored to study from 1971 - 1978. My education continues today in the professional classes taught by the Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education, Ellen Reiss. 

"Knowing, Not Bullying"

As this school year begins, I would like teachers and students to know about this Blog featured on the Aesthetic Realism Foundation website. It's about a subject which has been increasingly traumatizing school children throughout the US. Zvia Ratz' important paper about the cause of bullying and what can end it needs to be known! 

AESTHETIC REALISM SEMINARS AND TALKS ON ART

"Care for Yourself & Justice to Others: Do They Have to Fight?" with comment on Baseball Executive Branch Rickey

"Triumph and Sadness: Opposites in Ourselves and in Nat Fein's Photo of Babe Ruth's Farewell"

After hearing this talk from the series Art Answers the
Questions of Your Life given at the Terrain Gallery in NYC, photographer Nat Fein shook Mr. Palmer's hand and said,
"This is the greatest tribute to this photograph that's ever
been."

This talk was presented at the 24th Symposium at Cooperstown
Baseball Hall of Fame in May 2012

• When Is a Fight Beautiful?: George Bellows' "Dempsey & Firpo"
  





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• "What's Real Intelligence--about the World and Ourselves?"
With commentary on Samuel Leibowitz and the Scottsboro Case.
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3 
 
• "Ego or Justice?--The Fight in Every Man"  With commentary on  20th century American artist, John Sloan. "In the periodical The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, Eli Siegel writes: '[T]he thing most needed by man to have a like of himself or respect for himself that is valid, is the feeling that the world is seen by him in a fair way, an accurate way, and one that goes towards as much as possible, liking the world.' "  Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3 


• "The Debate in Every Person: To Have More Feeling or Less?" Includes aspects of the life of 20th century French general and statesman, Charles De Gaulle   Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3 

•  "True Strength in a Man," Includes discussion of heavy-weight great,  Muhammad Ali                         Page 1  |   Page 2  |  Page 3 


• "Honesty--Will It Get a Man What He Really Wants?"  In this paper I  write about one of baseball's greatest players,  Hank Greenberg.   Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3 


• "To Feel More or Less: What Represents Us Truly?; or, William Jennings Bryan?" 

REPORTS OF AESTHETIC REALISM CLASSES

"Ethics As Possibility," given by Eli Siegel October 10, 1969; report of it by Michael Palmer  Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3

ARTICLES IN THE NEWS AND SPECIAL FEATURES 

RESOURCES

   Arnold Perey writing on Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology

   Lynette Abel writes on women's issues, economics, art
      See her blog on "Aesthetic Realism, Ethics, & Literature
      Lynette Abel's website; On Sargent's Madame X

    Alice Bernstein and the book Aesthetic Realism and the Answer
      to Racism

   Anne Fielding on Acting, Love, and Widowhood

   Rosemary Plumstead on Aesthetic Realism and Education

    Music, History, & Life, "Basie, Williams, and the Blues"
      Artie Shaw's Nightmare, and other things by Michael Palmer. 

    Note: for a great jazz website, see All About Jazz 

    Alan Shapiro, jazz pianist, music educator

   Reverend Wayne Plumstead's Blog: The World Now--& You

    Kevin Fennell, singer, rock 'n' roll critic

    Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism Consultant

    Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism Associate, and English Educator