It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Wright Kathleen ed. ISBN 978-0-8264-8461-1
Malpas Jeff and Santiago Zabala (eds)Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years after Truth and Method (Northwestern University Press 2010). The Philosophy of Gadamer.

Hans-Georg Gadamer (German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; February 11 1900 – March 13 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).