Transcendental realism
Subtitle: the image-art of egoless coincidence with reality itself
By: Adi Da Samraj
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Dawn Horse Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Middletown, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781570972850
Subjects: Aesthetics; Transcendentalism in art
Description: It is a rare and unique gift to view works of art created by a true Realizer--much less to hear the Realizer's instruction regarding his or her own art. This book marks just such an unprecedented opportunity. Transcendental Realism  is a unique treasure, gathering together Adi Da's key instruction on the methods, meaning, and purposes of his own work, as well as his penetrating insight into the present-day culture and purpose of art. The new edition of Transcendental Realism contains many never-before-published writings by Adi Da, including a remarkable, detailed explanation of how His own final image-making process evolved. --Publisher description.
Notes: "The 2nd edition ... contains all the essays that Adi Da Samraj wrote for this book (between 2006 and 2008)--including the essays from the first edition (2007), the essays originally published in the books Aesthetic Ecstasy (2007) and Perfect Abstraction (2008), and the essays written by Adi Da Samraj after those three publications"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Erik van Erp; title: Adi Da Samraj : the master of the transformational art of transcendental realism; title: The only subject of all art; title: Art and chaos; title: Direct presentation versus indirect representation; title: My non-subjective art of image; title: Geome and linead : my working-principles of image-art; title: The final resolution of geome, linead, and orphic font; title: The perfect foreground; title: The maze of ecstasy; title: Orphic magic; title: The self-discipline of ecstatic participation in the image-art I make and do; title: The secret of how to know (and be known by) my participatory image-art; title: My non-objective art of image; title: Perfect abstraction; title: The unobservable totality of light; title: The visual realization of insecurity and truth; title: Open-handed image-art; title: The tree of human shape : my image-art of indivisible form; title: How to be the surface space of my image-art; title: You are the surface space of my image-art; title: The open-eyed room; title: The beautiful room of perfect space; title: The varietal characteristics of "reality" in modernism, post-modernism, and transcendental realism; title: The eternal war between Orpheus and Narcissus : the culture of ego-transcendence versus the anti-culture of ego-reflection; title: Aesthetic ecstasy : art without a mediator; title: My material art must forever remain within the perfect room; title: In plain sight without a word; title: The authentic articstic discipline of truth itself, beauty itself, and reality itself; title: The ego-transcending ordeal of making right and true art; title: True art always causes more art; title: Picture perfect : a final imagery of this; title: What is no-"point-of-view" is all-and-all.