A Trilogy Transcendent

'A Trilogy Transcendent' is a kind of loose trilogy of philosophical novels originally dating from 1980 (but now extensively revised) and sharing a common transcendental theme which has a particular, though not exclusive, reference to modern art and its examination and appreciation from a pro-avantgarde standpoint (the author's own) that is often in opposition to apparently philistine or conservative reaction from a variety of conventional quarters, whose penchant for 'the concrete', doubtless motivated by commercial considerations not unconnected with a classic view of art, tends to exclude abstraction.