The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things by George Kubler

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1963. Yale University. Second Printing. Ex-Libris.

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.