NADA(ist) Manifesto for Peace:

Ascent      Descent

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Artist: George Kasey

a de-design composition for an installation in stained glass

Original Size: 8”X 10”

Multi-Media:Print Image Montage, Digital, Internet

Time of Actualization: ‘95/09/17

…After William Blake’s “Ascent” and “Descent” (of Christ into Heaven and Hell)

Memorial for Hans Arp, after William Blake, who knew well the meaning of Nada

 Artistic Influences for This Work

In Dada: Paradox of Art, Paradox of Life Graham Hunter writes: "...The Dadaists thought that by creating paradoxical art that emulated the unpredictable nature of life they could protest against the misguided rationality of society..." We feel they were sadly misguided, yet much of contemporary art attempts to emulate DADA, having lost the original meaning and intent of "protest". The very rare examples of a true, "clean and sober" strain from the original Berlin DaDA i.e.: John Heartfield, Hanna Hoch, are like the esoteric spiritual pacifist resistance anti-art of an unorthodox Zen Buddhist "NADA", or Na~da Yoga, … as such, much of the pseudo "DADA" replication, that is entombed in museums today, is Metaphysical Kitsch at its worst and an insult to the eternal spirit of NADA.