Lois Mason

Aesthetic Realism Consultant & History Teacher
 
 

American History:
Muckrakers
Brown vs. Board of Education
Mexican War

Global History:
Maps
History of China

Women's Questions:
Under Construction

 

Related Links About Aesthetic Realism

  The Heart Knows Better. A Film by Aesthetic Realism Consultant Ken 
     Kimmelman
  
The Emmy award-winning anti-prejudice public service announcement by Ken Kimmelman, an Aesthetic Realism consultant, in New York City.  The film is produced by Imagery Film, Ltd. -- the film company directed by Mr. Kimmelman 
 
  Len Bernstein-Aesthetic Realism & Photographic Education
  A New Perspective for Anthropology
  
"How can cultural anthropology have a scientific basis at last? I present the answer I learned from Aesthetic Realism and Eli Siegel."  -- Arnold Perey, Ph.D.
 
  Amy and Louis Dienes, Photographers and Aesthetic Realism Associates
  
Portfolios of photographs, and much more, including a Poem: Black and White, with a selection of photographs which inspired the lines. 
 
  How My Stuttering Ended Through Studying Aesthetic Realism
  
"A matter that concerns many people in America and has caused a great deal of pain is stuttering.  I know that the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism understands stuttering and can end it—for  I learned the scientific cause of stuttering and my stuttering ended!"  -- Miriam Mondlin
 
  Barbara Allen, flutist, teacher, Aesthetic Realism Consultant
  
"The philosophy of Aesthetic Realism, which I am so proud to teach, has educated me about the most important things a person can know--including about Music, Education, Love and Marriage." --Barbara Allen 
 
  Aesthetic Realism and Picasso's GUERNICA: For Life
  
"Pablo Picasso in his angry yet monumental memorial to Guernica opposes cruelty and affirms life--doesn't say reality is senseless." --Dorothy Koppelman
 
  Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism Consultant
  
"I am proud to have seen Aesthetic Realism is true: it explains the human mind, the world we are in, with magnificent scope and exactness. The study of it enables individual men and women to be fully what they hope to be.  It is the greatest force for individuality of a true kind; and it shows a person what he or she has in common with the whole world and all people, those close to us and across this diverse earth!"  -- Nancy Hunting
 
  Housing: A Basic Human Right
  
"Housing -- A Basic Right, an Urgent Need, a National Priority:  Aesthetic Realism Explains America's Housing Crisis, the Cause, and the Solution"
 
  Anne Fielding,  Actress, Consultant
  
"You will see the classes I love to teach.  And, how immeasurably useful Aesthetic Realism is to people's lives--including, so much, my own.  And in my essay "I Believe this about Acting," is some of what I learned from Mr. Siegel about the urgent, needed, true comprehension of the art of acting and the human self. " -- Anne Fielding
 
  Ruth Oron, Essayist
  
"Aesthetic Realism changed my life, made it truly happy and full of meaning and I passionately want every person in the world to know the new, true, beautiful and just way of seeing the world and people Aesthetic Realism teaches." --Ruth Oron 
 
  David M. Bernstein, Fine Art Photography
  
"I learned that the critical basis of art, including photography, which I love, is in this Aesthetic Realism principle stated by Eli Siegel: "The world, art and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites." Along with photographs, I am happy and grateful to include articles written by me and my colleagues showing the enormous value of this education in the understanding of the aesthetics of photography and the lives of every photographer." -- David M. Bernstein
 
  United Nations AFF 99: What Does a Person Deserve?
  
Director: Ken Kimmelman.
Description: A film that asks this question, first posed by Eli Siegel, in relation to homelessness and hunger in the United States today: "What does a person deserve by being alive?"
 
  Donita Ellison, Art Educator and Aesthetic Realism Associate
  
"I am happy to describe in my website what I am learning from Aesthetic Realism about life, art, education, marriage and love, the family, music, the economy and so much more!  I am grateful to use the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method in art classes I teach to high school students and to present it to other teachers in professional conferences. Some of these presentations are included in my website, too." 
                                                 --Donita Ellison, Aesthetic Realism Associate
 
  Eve Lustig
  
"I am glad to welcome you to my website.  Here, you can learn more about Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by the great historian, poet and critic, Eli Siegel.
I am proud that articles I have written showing what Aesthetic Realism explains about subjects that concern people everywhere have been published in newspapers and professional journals across the United States and in countries abroad."
                                                                --Eve Lustig, Aesthetic Realism Associate
 
  Lynette Abel
  
"On my website I write about what I have learned about personal and international matters and how they are related: for instance, what makes for disappointment and failure in love and what makes love flourish; what is the cause of failure in the economy and what will have it flourish! " -- Lynette Abel, Aesthetic Realism Associate
 

 

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For further information about the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method:

Eli Siegel,Founder of Aesthetic Realism:
Preface to Self and World
Lectures about Education
International Periodical

Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, commentaries on Education:
"Education & What Every Child Deserves"
"What Education Is For"
"The Right of Every Child"
Biographical Information

Leila Rosen, English Teacher, Aesthetic Realism Associate
"The Success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Liking the World vs. Contempt"

Alan Shapiro, Aesthetic Realism Associate, Jazz Pianist, Music Educator
Aesthetic Realism and Music Education: "Difficulty and Ease in Wagner’s Liebestod"

Len Bernstein, Photographic Education through Aesthetic Realism

Alice Bernstein, Aesthetic Realism Associate, Journalist:
“Education for Children's Minds - Not for Profit"

Barbara Allen, Aesthetic Realism Consultant and Flutist
“The Beginnings of Music: The Opposites in the Flute”

Marcia Rackow, Artist, Aesthetic Realism Consultant:
“Aesthetic Realism and Beatrix Potter's 'Peter Rabbit'”

Lynette Abel, John Singer Sargent's Madame X

More Resources about Aesthetic Realism:
The Terrain Gallery
Governor's & Mayor's Proclamations
Friends of Aesthetic Realism—Countering the Lies
Aesthetic Realism Books, including online chapters
Aesthetic Realism Foundation Faculty
Aesthetic Realism Versus Racism