Download or read book The Shape of Time written by George Kubler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising from the study of art history, this book presents a radically new approach to the problem of historical change. George Kubler draws upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics and replaces the notion of style with the idea of a linked succession of works distributed in time as recognizably early and late versions of the same action. The result is a view of historical sequence aligned on continuous change more than upon the ecstatic concept of style--the usual basis for conventional histories of art.