Everything You Know is an Anomaly

Why is our society a historical exception.

When I was a student, I adored lectures on art history. I was passionately studying everyone, from Imhotep to Rembrandt and Rothko. One of the books that brought them to life was Gombrich’s The Story of Art, which describes their life and work so vividly that I almost felt like being right there, in their studios. These were my heroes, and after spending so much time with them and their works at museums, I thought I knew art history pretty well.