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Michael Palmer
Writer & Aesthetic Realism Associate

Michael Palmer

Included here are articles I've written showing the large value of Aesthetic Realism in understanding 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

The following papers were given in public seminars and presentations at the not-for-profit Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, NY, NY 10012 / 212.777.4490

"How Do We Want to Express Ourselves?" with discussion of 19th century American newspaper editor, Horace Greeley

"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"

Nat Fein's
                                Pulitzer-prize photo of Babe Ruth

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


REPORTS OF AESTHETIC REALISM CLASSES

"Heavy and Light; or, Radio, Cinema, and a Bit of Literature," given by Eli Siegel June 22, 1975; report  by Michael Palmer
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3

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

Report of a talk on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness given by Eli Siegel May 9, 1975

ARTICLES IN THE NEWS AND SPECIAL FEATURES 

  •  Journal of the Print World:  "Logic & Emotion in Art & Our Lives:
  •             John Sloan's "Roofs, Summer Night"
     
  • Read Welcome Your Confusion as a Guest by Ellen Reiss, a moving, musical poem, which shows our confusion can be useful, and meaningful to us.  This poem is the basis of this video.

  • RESOURCES

    roodknop   Arnold Perey writing on Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology

    roodknop   Lynette Abel writes on women's issues, economics, art
          See her blog on "Aesthetic Realism, Ethics, & Literature

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

    roodknop   Anne Fielding on Acting, Love, and Widowhood

    roodknop   Rosemary Plumstead on Aesthetic Realism and Education

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

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

    roodknop    Alan Shapiro, jazz pianist, music educator

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

    roodknop    Kevin Fennell, singer, rock 'n' roll critic

    roodknop    Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism Consultant

    roodknop    Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism Associate, and English Educator



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