The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things

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Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1962 - Art - 136 pages
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.

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