“The history of art… resembles a broken but much-repaired chain made of string and wire to connect the occasional jeweled links surviving as physical evidences of the invisible original sequence of prime objects.”

— George Kubler

Source: The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 40; as cited in Lee (2001, p. 55)

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American art historian 1912–1996

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