George Kubler

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection: Pre-Columbian Sculpture by George Kubler is a comprehensive guide to the extensive collection of Pre-Columbian art amassed by the wealthy American collectors, Louise and Walter Arensberg. The book features a detailed introduction to the collection, which includes over 200 sculptures and artifacts from ancient Mesoamerica and South America. The author, George Kubler, is a renowned art historian and expert in Pre-Columbian art, and provides insightful commentary on the cultural significance and artistic techniques of each piece in the collection. The book is lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs of the sculptures, providing readers with a visual exploration of the aesthetic and cultural diversity of Pre-Columbian art. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the art and history of ancient Mesoamerica and South America, and a valuable addition to any art lover's library. Foreword By Fiske Kimball. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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 Review.