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The Vaporous Sublime
December 12, 2008
This noble phrase, for many of us, has been a call to adventure to the alluring world of art. My friend, the art historian, Peter Weller likes to quote a very famous art scholar, E. H. Gombrich who in reference to this rather innocent phrase says,
“You know what you like and you like what you know.”