On Aesthetic Realism, Love and Marriage
"The purpose of marriage is to like the world through another person." —Eli Siegel
"From coast to coast, marriages are suffering because of the failed economy. Women are speaking like this wife of twenty-five years, whose husband lost his job; she is quoted in an article in New York Newsday: "We fight all the time now....."
Aesthetic Realism Seminar paper by Barbara Allen, of There Are Wives. Includes Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson--Fanny Van de Grift Osborne--and women today
Paper presented in an Aesthetic Realism Seminar given by There Are Wives, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, New York City, 1/18/97. Includes a study of Cosima Wagner, the wife of the great German composer, Richard Wagner, excerpts from Aesthetic Realism classes taught by Eli Siegel, and an Aesthetic Realism consultation with a contemporary woman.
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