Eli Siegel
Eli Siegel was a poet, critic, and educator. He founded Aesthetic Realism, a philosophical movement based in New York City. An idea central to Aesthetic Realism—that every person, place or thing in reality has something in common with all other things—was expressed in the title poem of his first volume, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems.
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Baltimore City College
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Trending topics shown first"So we are alone in our blood and bones and our thoughts. It seems we are separate if we want to feel that way. And yet we can look out."
"All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this."
"Aesthetics is related to every particular conflict; to everyday conflict."
"Art is internal and external. The repose a person feels in aesthetic creation comes from his, for the time, feeling he is what he is and also what he is not. Ego and otherness don't fight for the whil…"
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1902
Born
Birth1978
Died
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