书名：George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History / 乔治·A·库布勒与艺术史的形态
定价：435.0
ISBN：9781606068328
作者：Thomas F. Reese
版次：1
出版时间：2023-06

内容提要：

题 目：George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History / 乔治·A·库布勒与艺术史的形态

作 者：Thomas F. Reese

出 版：Getty Research Institute，2023

装 帧：精装，272页

尺 寸：17.7*25.4 cm

 

 

这是一部启迪人心的智识传记，讲述了美国艺术史上一位开创性且独一无二的人物。

 

艺术史学家乔治·A·库布勒（1912-1996）是古美洲艺术与考古学以及西班牙和葡萄牙建筑学的奠基学者。在耶鲁大学执教五十余年间，他出版了十七部著作，其中包括创新性专著、重要综合著作和一部具有影响力的理论专著。在这部传记中，托马斯·F·里斯分析了库布勒的早期成长、广泛职业生涯和著作，对其思想起源与发展进行了细致入微的阐释。

 

里斯对库布勒著作的讨论与背景分析尤为引人注目，尤其是他对库布勒的《时间的形状》一书进行了深刻的历史剖析和解读。这本书自1962年出版以来，一直对多个学科的学生、学者、艺术家和好奇读者产生着深远影响，至今仍在不断重印。里斯揭示了这本书中的思想在库布勒自身思考中的核心地位：他逐渐从将形式作为排序原则的问题研究中转变，转而根据作品如何传达意义来进行序列排列。作者展示了库布勒虽然自称对理论兴趣不大，却全身心投入到艺术史的研究中，发现并绘制了指导结构和意义随时间传播的规则。

 

An illuminating intellectual biography of a pioneering and singular figure in American art history.

 

Art historian George A. Kubler (1912–1996) was a foundational scholar of ancient American art and archaeology as well as Spanish and Portuguese architecture. During over five decades at Yale University, he published seventeen books that included innovative monographs, major works of synthesis, and an influential theoretical treatise. In this biography, Thomas F. Reese analyzes the early formation, broad career, and writings of Kubler, casting nuanced light on the origins and development of his thinking.

 

Notable in Reese’s discussion and contextualization of Kubler’s writings is a revealing history and analysis of his Shape of Time—a book so influential to students, scholars, artists, and curious readers in multiple disciplines that it has been continuously in print since 1962. Reese reveals how pivotal its ideas were in Kubler’s own thinking: rather than focusing on problems of form as an ordering principle, he increasingly came to sequence works by how they communicate meaning. The author demonstrates how Kubler, who professed to have little interest in theory, devoted himself to the craft of art history, discovering and charting the rules that guided the propagation of structure and significance through time.