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I promised I would be posting one of the most valuable writings on art I know, Eli Siegel's description of the oneness of passion and control in "All the Arts" --which is the subtitle of an issue of the periodical The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, published on April 20, 1977. So, here is the first installment of that document. He begins:
"Dear Unknown Friends:
"Aesthetic Realism has tried to make two things clear, both of value to the life of man. The first of these is that all the arts, at their beginning, have something in common; and that this common thing in all the arts is the oneness of opposites, felt and worked with by an individual mind. The second purpose of Aesthetic Realism has been the showing that what is in all the arts is hoped for by every person, for the oneness of opposites to be found in painting, music, poetry, drama, sculpture, the dance, photography, the cinema, and so on, constitutes sanity."
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