I have asserted that Move Close is a welcomed, corrective voice in current art writing. But this is not a book for academics and critics. It addresses a general readership. If such aesthetic practice is disregarded, and 'Art' allowed to withdraw into the arcane preserve of some totally cerebral 'art world' or Socraticist academe, a quality of living, a human potential, would be diminished. Adequate, that is, as recognizing the merits of, rather than suppressing reflection.
Culture seeks to reconcile what has been divided, but at a higher level.
In so far as art is a way of bringing ideas back into intimate connection with feelings, imagination, desire and perception it is a means of allowing us, as rational beings, to find ourselves at home in the world of appearances, the world in which we must live. That this a very real need, and that we are in danger of denying it in our new millennium, appears ever more evident. Ultimately, such beliefs must lie in human nature, as a postulate. Neither reason, nor argument can prove or disprove an a priori . And either we affirm or deny.