The Shape of Time
Remarks on the History of Things
1st Edition
Published on 17. April 2008
144 pages
978-0-300-19637-5 (ISBN)
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George Kubler (1912-1996) was Sterling Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He is also author of The Art and Architecture of Ancient America (Yale).
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George Kubler (1912-1996) was Sterling Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He is also author of The Art and Architecture of Ancient America (Yale).
Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- PREAMBLE: Symbol, Form, and Duration
- ONE. THE HISTORY OF THINGS
- The Limitations of Biography: Individual Entrances
- Talent and Genius
- Biological and Physical Metaphors
- Scientists and Artists
- The Historian's Commitment: The Divisions of the Arts
- The Nature of Actuality: Of Arts and Stars
- Signals
- Relays
- Self-Signals and Adherent Signals: Iconographic Studies
- Configurational Analysis
- The Taxonomy of Meaning
- TWO. THE CLASSING OF THINGS
- Formal Sequences: Linked Solutions
- Open and Closed Sequences
- Fashions
- Prime Objects and Replications: Mutants
- Diagnostic Difficulties
- Serial Appreciation
- Technical Renewals
- The Invisible Chain
- Solitary and Gregarious Artists
- Serial Position, Age, and Change: The Rule of Series
- Systematic Age
- A Mexican Paradigm
- Linguistic Change
- THREE. THE PROPAGATION OF THINGS
- Invention and Variation: Artistic Invention
- Convention and Invention
- Replication: Permanence and Change
- The Anatomy of Routine
- Historical Drift
- Discard and Retention: Obsolescence and Ritual
- Aesthetic Fatigue
- FOUR. SOME KINDS OF DURATION
- Fast and Slow Happening: The Typology of Artists' Lives
- Tribes, Courts, and Cities
- The Shapes of Time: Positional Values
- Periods and Their Lengths
- The Indiction as Module
- Intermittent Classes
- Arrested Classes
- Extended Series
- Wandering Series
- Simultaneous Series
- Lenses vs. Fibers of Duration
- CONCLUSION
- Finite Invention: The Purist Reduction of Knowledge
- Widening the Gate
- The Finite World
- The Equivalence of Form and Expression: Iconological Diminutions
- The Deficiencies of Style
- The Plural Present
- NOTES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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