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“The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.” —ELI SIEGEL

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Books by Eli Siegel

  • SELF AND WORLD: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism
  • CHILDREN’S GUIDE TO PARENTS & OTHER MATTERS: Little Essays for Children and Others
    • Review in the Harlem Times
  • HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA: POEMS
    • Read the poem Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana By Eli Siegel
    • Read a Letter by William Carlos Williams about the poem
    • Review of the book in The Saturday Review by Selden Rodman
    • Review of the book in New Mexico Quarterly by Walter Leuba
  • JAMES AND THE CHILDREN: A Consideration of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw
    Edited by Martha Baird
  • HAIL, AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT. Poems.
    • Review in New York Times Book Review by Kenneth Rexroth
  • DAMNED WELCOME: AESTHETIC REALISM MAXIMS
    Drawings by Chaim Koppelman
  • THE MODERN QUARTERLY BEGINNINGS OF AESTHETIC REALISM, 1922-1923
    Includes: The Equality of Man and The Scientific Criticism
  • THE FRANCES SANDERS LESSON AND TWO RELATED WORKS
    Includes: The Ordinary Doom and Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites? 

Books About Aesthetic Realism By Other Authors

  • THE WILLIAMS-SIEGEL DOCUMENTARY. Ellen Reiss and Martha Baird (eds.)
    • Excerpt from Eli Siegel’s discussion of the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by Williams
  • NICE DEITY; Poems by Martha Baird, with a Preface by Eli Siegel
  • TWO AESTHETIC REALISM PAPERS: 1. Opposites in the Drama; 2. Opposites in Myself
    By Martha Baird
  • AESTHETIC REALISM: WE HAVE BEEN THERE — Six Artists on the Siegel Theory of Opposites
    By Chaim Koppelman, Anne Fielding, et al.
    Essays on art, acting, photography. Illus.

    • Review: Popular Photography
    • Review: Library Journal
  • PERSONAL & IMPERSONAL – Six Aesthetic Realists
    Poems by Sheldon Kranz, Louis Dienes, Nancy Starrels, Nat Herz, Martha Baird, Rebecca Fein.
    With a Critical Preface by Eli Siegel

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