The Shape of Time -- Remarks on the History of Things
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 1971
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- Title
- The Shape of Time -- Remarks on the History of Things
- Author
- Kubler, George
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 1971
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300001444
- ISBN 13
- 9780300001440
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'Kubler's telling of the history of things remains a key text, his vision a compelling mixture of the habitual and the poetic in human behaviour. For him, human creativity is a constantly repeated attempt to refine answers to a set of questions that change only slowly. But this universal habit is punctuated by the great works of art, ways of doing and seeing that he compares to stars, influencing, shaping and illuminating even after they have been destroyed.' --Neil MacGregor, Director, The British Museum
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