“Instead of an idea of style, which embraces too many associations, [I] have outlined the idea of a linked succession of prime works with replications, all being distributed in time as recognizably early and late versions of the same kind of action.”

—  George Kubler

Source: The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 130

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