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Transcendental Realism

Transcendental Realism

Essays Written for Transcendental Realism: The Image-Art of egoless Coincidence With Reality Itself on the Occasion of Adi Da Samraj’s Exhibition at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, Florence, 2008

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Transcendental Realism is a unique treasure, gathering together all of Adi Da’s writings on art. This greatly expanded second edition includes details on the methods, meaning, and purposes of His work, His penetrating insight into the present-day culture and purpose of art, and specific recommendations on how to participate ecstatically in art. Avatar Adi Da also intensively considers the error of presuming oneself to be separate from a work of art—He invites every individual to be drawn beyond this illusion of separateness into the ecstatic, living process of participating in His image-art. 

Included are ten essays which Avatar Adi Da wrote in the final year of His life, in addition to all of the essays published in Aesthetic Ecstasy andPerfect Abstraction, as well as the first edition of Transcendental Realism. Also new is a series of black-and-white photographs of Adi Da working in His studio, and a greatly expanded color-insert—24 pages of high-quality replications of His image-art. 

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. 

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True art heals. True art restores equanimity. Art must regenerate the sense of well-being. That is its true purpose. 

—ADI DA SAMRAJ

“I believe that art should always be a surprise. It must create, even in the critic, not emotion, but a sense of insecurity. When one views Adi Da’s art, it is easy to see ‘pop art’, ‘op art’, and all the possible linguistic, ethnological, and iconographic references—but, in the end, the final work is always a surprise. With Adi Da’s work, I did not simply find myself in front of a new personal iconographic universe but rather in front of images that returned me to an experience of ‘epiphany’.” 

—ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA acclaimed critic; curator; former Director of the Biennale di Venezia

“[Adi Da’s] pursuit of the spiritual paths found in early abstraction, from Kandinsky to Mondrian, and [his] translation of that pursuit into the digital age, restore a transcendental spirituality to the materialism of the machine aesthetic.”

—PETER WEIBEL Director ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

ISBN: 978-1-57097-285-0

Format: 6 x 9 inches, softcover