George Kubler

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George Alexander Kubler (26 July 1912 - 3 October 1996) was an American art
historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of Pre-Columbian America and
Ibero-American Art.[1][2]

Contents
1 Biography
2 Works
2.1 Books
2.2 Articles
3 References
4 External links
Biography
Kubler was born in Hollywood, California, but most of his early education was in
Europe. He attended high school at Western Reserve Academy, a private,
coeducational boarding school in Hudson, Ohio. He then went to Yale University,
where he earned an A.B. (1934), A.M. (1936) and Ph.D. degree (1940), the latter two
under guidance of Henri Focillon. From 1938 onwards, Kubler was a member of the
Yale University faculty and was the first Robert Lehman Professor (1964-1975),
Sterling Professor of the History of Art (1975-1983) and after his retirement, a
senior resident scholar. He received several awards, including three Guggenheim
Fellowships, an American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid for research in
Mexico and the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican Government. He also was
honored with several visiting lectureships and honorary degrees and was appointed
the 1985-86 Kress Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He was awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal in
1991.[3]

Kubler's major theoretical work, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of
Things[4] was a major influence on Esther Pasztory, Robert Smithson, Donald Judd,
Ad Reinhardt, and Robert Morris, among others.[5]

He also had a hand in the definition of "Portuguese plain architecture", naming

this architectural period in light of his direct knowledge of a set of plain,
simple buildings with almost no ornaments dating from the 16th century.

Works
Books
Mexican architecture of the sixteenth century. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University
Press 1948.
The Tovar Calendar (with Charles Gibson. Mem. Connecticut Aca. Arts and Sci., vol.
11. New Haven 1951.
The art and architecture of ancient America: the Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples.
New York: Penguin 1962.
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things. New Haven: Yale University
Press 1962.
Articles
"Population movements in Mexico, 1520-1600." Hispanic American Historical Review,
vol. 22(1942): 606-43
"The Cycle of life and death in metropolitan Aztec Culture." Gazette des Beaux
Arts, 23(1943): 257-68.
"Chichen-Itza y Tula." Estudios de Cultura Maya, 1:(1961) 47-80.
"The iconography of the art of Teotihuacan: the pre-Columbian collection, Dumbarton
Oaks. Studies in Pre-Columbiain Art and Archeologyl, no. 4. Washington, D.C. 1967.
References
 Willey, G.R. (1998) George Alexander Kubler (26 July 1912-3 October 1996).
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 142, No. 4 (Dec., 1998),
pp. 672-675, JSTOR 3152291
"George Kubler" In Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved May 6, 2000, Web site:
http://arthistorians.info/kublerg
"George A. Kubler" - Obituary. In Yale Bulletin & Calendar. Retrieved May 6, 2000,
Web site: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved
2007-05-06.
Giulio Angioni, Miseria e nobilt� della tecnica, in Fare, dire, sentire:
l'identico e il diverso nelle culture, Il Maestrale 2011, pp. 71-76
Wood, P. (2006). Reality Check. In Oxford Art Journal, 29(2), pp. 291-296.
External links
Works by or about George Kubler in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Wikiquote has quotations related to: George Kubler
Authority control
WorldCat Identities BNF: cb121780480 (data) GND: 12927092X ISNI: 0000 0001 2320
9817 LCCN: n50047953 SNAC: w6251j1m SUDOC: 030346460 ULAN: 500244446 VIAF: 68972116
Categories: 1912 births1996 deathsAmerican art historiansGuggenheim FellowsAmerican
MesoamericanistsYale University alumniHistorians of MexicoHistorians of
Mesoamerican art20th-century MesoamericanistsPeople from Hollywood, Los
AngelesRecipients of the Order of the Aztec Eagle20th-century American historians
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