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The Shape of Time - Remarks on the History of Things (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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The Shape of Time - Remarks on the History of Things (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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Loot Price R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
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When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a
radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon
new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George
Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of
art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change
across time. Kubler's classic work is now made available in a
freshly designed edition. "The Shape of Time is as relevant now as
it was in 1962. This book, a sober, deeply introspective, and
quietly thrilling meditation on the flow of time and space and the
place of objects within a larger continuum, adumbrates so many of
the critical and theoretical concerns of the late twentieth and
early twenty-first century. It is both appropriate and necessary
that it re-appear in our consciousness at this time."-Edward J.
Sullivan, New York University This book will be of interest to all
students of art history and to those concerned with the nature and
theory of history in general. In a study of formal and symbolic
durations the author presents a radically new approach to the
problem of historical change. Using new ideas in anthropology and
linguistics, he pursues such questions as the nature of time, the
nature of change, and the meaning of invention. The result is a
view of historical sequence aligned on continuous change more than
upon the static notion of style-the usual basis for conventional
histories of art. "A carefully reasoned and brilliantly suggestive
essay in defense of the view that the history of art can be the
study of formal relationships, as against the view that it should
concentrate on ideas of symbols or biography."-Harper's. "It is a
most important achievement, and I am sure that it will be studies
for many years in many fields. I hope the book upsets people and
makes them reformulate."-James Ackerman. "In this brief and
important essay, George Kubler questions the soundness of the
stylistic basis of art historical studies. . . . The Shape of Time
ably states a significant position on one of the most complex
questions of modern art historical scholarship."-Virginia Quarterly
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