George Kubler
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Alexander Kubler was an American art historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art. 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. , A.M. and Ph.D. degree , 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 , Sterling Professor of the History of Art 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 a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal in 1991.
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- The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1964) (318)
- Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (1993) (280)
- Mexican Architecture Of The Sixteenth Century (1950) (67)
- The Population of Central Mexico in the Sixteenth Century (1978) (62)
- The Art And Architecture Of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, And Andean Peoples (1959) (55)
- The iconography of the art of Teotihuacán (1969) (54)
- La población indígena y el mestizaje en América (1955) (52)
- 2. On the Colonial Extinction of the Motifs of Pre-Columbian Art (1961) (33)
- Arquitectura Mexicana del Siglo XVI (1993) (31)
- History: Or Anthropology: Of Art? (1975) (28)
- Historia del origen y genealogía real de los reyes incas del Perú (1947) (27)
- Mexican Urbanism in the Sixteenth Century (1942) (27)
- Period, Style and Meaning in Ancient American Art (1970) (26)
- Studies in Classic Maya Iconography. (1969) (22)
- Towards Absolute Time: Guano Archaeology (1945) (21)
- The Indian caste of Peru, 1795-1940;: A population study based upon tax records and census reports (1973) (20)
- Building the Escorial (1987) (19)
- Studies in Ancient American and European Art: The Collected Essays of George Kubler (1985) (17)
- The religious architecture of New Mexico in the colonial period and since the American occupation (1990) (16)
- STYLE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF HISTORICAL TIME (1967) (15)
- Florentine Codex, General History of the Things of New Spain, Fray Bernardino de Sahagun (1952) (14)
- Portuguese Plain Architecture, between Spices and Diamonds, 1521-1706 (1972) (13)
- What Can Historians Do for Architects (1965) (13)
- The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. E. H. Gombrich (1980) (12)
- The Cult of the Serpent in the Americas: Its Asian Background [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (12)
- Esthetic recognition of ancient Amerindian art (1991) (12)
- Pre-Columbian Pilgrimages in Mesoamerica (1984) (12)
- Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis. Dorothy K. Washburn , Donald W. Crowe (1991) (9)
- Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America (1978) (8)
- La traza colonial de Cholula (1968) (8)
- The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776 (1979) (8)
- The Shape of Time. Reconsidered (1982) (8)
- The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Atrios, Posas, Open Chapels, and other Studies (1965) (8)
- Three Remarks on the Meninas (1966) (7)
- The Tovar Calendar, an Illustrated Mexican Manuscript ca. 1585 (1952) (7)
- Aspects of classic Maya rulership on two inscribed vessels (1977) (7)
- The Louise and Walter Arensberg collection (1954) (7)
- Vicente Carducho's Allegories of Painting (1965) (7)
- The “Mirror” in Las Meninas (1985) (7)
- Cuzco : reconstruction of the town and restoration of its monuments (1952) (7)
- Serpent and Atlantean Columns: Symbols of Maya-Toltec Polity (1982) (7)
- INFLUENCE OF METEOROLOGIC FACTORS ON FROST DAMAGE IN ROADS (1963) (6)
- La configuración del tiempo: observaciones sobre la historia de las cosas (1988) (6)
- The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery (1949) (6)
- Population Movements in Mexico 1520-1600 (1942) (6)
- Observations on the Emergence of Civilization in Mesoamerica (1971) (6)
- The Neo-Inca State (1537-1572) (1947) (5)
- A new history of stereotyping (5)
- Architects and Builders in Mexico: 1521-1550 (1944) (5)
- The antiquity of the art of painting (1967) (4)
- The Tovar Calendar (1951) (4)
- The Machine for Living in 18th-Century West Africa (1944) (4)
- The Behavior of Atahualpa, 1531-1533 (1945) (4)
- Eidetic Imagery and Paleolithic Art (1985) (4)
- Sweat of the Sun and Tears of the Moon: Gold and Silver in Pre-Columbian Art. André Emmerich. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1965. 240 pp., 228 illus., 4 in color. $15.00. (1966) (4)
- Catalogo de Construcciones Religiosas del Estado de Yucatan (1946) (4)
- La obra del Escorial (1985) (3)
- México: monumentos históricos y arqueológicos (1954) (3)
- The Bicephalous "Animal Style" in Northern Eurasian Religious Art and Its Western Hemispheric Analogues [and Comments and Reply] (1984) (3)
- A Peruvian Chief of State: Manco Inca (1515–1545) (1944) (3)
- Descripción de las Indias (1948) (3)
- Sources of Stones Used in Prehistoric Mesoamerican Sites. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Number 1, Berkeley, September 1965. (1966) (3)
- The Mazapan Maps of Teotihuacan in 1560 (1982) (3)
- Painting and Sculpture at Mission Santa Barbara (1956) (2)
- Observations and studies in the ruins of Palenque = Beobachtungen und Studien in den Ruinen von Palenque (1977) (2)
- Yauyos, Tupe y el idioma Kauke (1958) (2)
- Remarks upon the History of Latin American Art (1944) (2)
- Robert C. Smith and Elizabeth Wilder, A Guide to the Art of Latin America (1949) (2)
- Origins of Religious Art and Iconography in Preclassic Mesoamerica. (1977) (2)
- Cieza de León en Sevilla y su muerte en 1554. Miguel Maticorena Estrada. (1959) (2)
- Recent Studies in Andean Prehistory and Protohistory: Papers from the Second Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1985) (2)
- Periodical Literature on Latin-American Archaeology 1940–1942 (1942) (1)
- The Story of Architecture in Mexico@@@La arquitectura de Mexico en el siglo XVI@@@Historia del arte hispano-americano@@@Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century (1950) (1)
- Arquitectura latinoamericana 1930/1970 (1970) (1)
- The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. VII-X (1944-1947) (1949) (1)
- Ancient American Gods and Their Living Impersonators (1984) (1)
- A Sixteenth-Century Meaning of the Escorial (1981) (1)
- A Statement on the Place of the History of Art in the Liberal Arts Curriculum (1944) (1)
- The Art of the Ancient Maya (1960) (1)
- Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (1988) (1)
- The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535–1635 (1991) (1)
- Cities and Culture in the Colonial Period in Latin America (1964) (1)
- Art and architecture in Italy, 1500 to 1800 (1959) (1)
- Henri Focillon, 1881–1943 (1945) (1)
- Editorial Board and the Table of Contents (2003) (1)
- The Aztecs, People of the Sun. Alfonso Caso. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1958. xvii+125 pp., 42 color illus., 16 photographs. $7.95. (1959) (0)
- The Art and Architecture of Ancient America@@@Pre-Columbian Art of South America (1978) (0)
- A Behavioral Approach to Historical Analysis Robert F. Berkhoffer, Jr. (1970) (0)
- Archeology and Prehistory: Ancient Arts of the Americas. G. H. S. Bushnell (1966) (0)
- Murillo and His Drawings.Jonathan Brown (1977) (0)
- Review: The Cathedral of Granada. A Study in the Spanish Renaissance by Earl E. Rosenthal (1961) (0)
- The Historical Demography and Ecology of the Teotlalpan.@@@Soil Erosion and Population in Central Mexico. (1951) (0)
- Arte del Perú precolombino (1951) (0)
- Review: Taos Adobes by Bainbridge Bunting (1968) (0)
- Santa María Ixcatlán. Habitat, Population, Subsistence (1959) (0)
- Battlefield of the Gods. Aspects of Mexican History, Art, and Exploration. Pal Kelemen. With an Introduction by Professor Alfred M. Tozzer. (212 pp., 61 pls., index. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937.) (1940) (0)
- LIGHTLY TRAFFICKED ROADS--FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (1971) (0)
- Review: Urbanization at Teotihuacán, Mexico, Vol. One by René Millon, R. B. Drewitt, G. L. Cowgill (1978) (0)
- Geology as Panoramic Vision: William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) (1988) (0)
- Aztec Calendar of 20,176 Non-Repeating Years in Codex Borhonicus, pp. 21-22 (1984) (0)
- Indianismo y mestizaje como tradiciones clásicas y medievales americanas (1966) (0)
- Salud y enfermedad en el campesino peruano del siglo XVII (1958) (0)
- Galeazzo Alessi y El Escorial (1992) (0)
- El 'San Felipe de Heraclea' de Murillo y los cuadros del Claustro Chico (1970) (0)
- El significado de el escorial en el siglo xvi (1981) (0)
- Sistemas misionales entre los indios pueblo, los guaraníes y en California (1992) (0)
- Relación muy breve y elogiosa de la vida y la obra de Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, primer escritor criollo del Perú (1944) (0)
- Art and Mankind: Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art. René Huyghe (1963) (0)
- Mission Monuments of New Mexico Edgar L. Hewett Reginald Fisher (1944) (0)
- Some Aspects of the Jumano Problem (1942) (0)
- Arte precolombino de México y de la América Central (1946) (0)
- Aspectos urbanos y rurales de Teotihuacán en 1560: la significación de los mapas de Mazapán (1993) (0)
- Archaeology: Jades from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1977) (0)
- Historia del arte hispano-americano (1946) (0)
- La arquitectura en el Uruguay, Vol. II, En Montevideo de 1830 a 1900 (1960) (0)
- The Art of Latin America (1943) (0)
- Indigenismo, indianismo y mestizaje en las artes visuales como tradición americanaclásica y medieval (1965) (0)
- Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanas I: A Commentary (1979) (0)
- Review: Los monumentos arquitectónicos de la Espanola, con una introducción a América by Erwin Walter Palm (1958) (0)
- Ant and Mythology: Robert Woods Bliss Collection: Pre‐Columbian Art. S. K. Lothrop, W. F. Foshag, and Joy Mahler (1958) (0)
- La arquitectura de México en el siglo XVI (1949) (0)
- Peregrinaciones precolombinas de mesoamerica (1984) (0)
- Picture Writing from Ancient Southern Mexico: Mixtec Place Signs and Maps. MARY ELIZABETH SMITH (1974) (0)
- john mc andrew, The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Atrios, Posas, Open Chapels, and Other Studies (1965) (0)
- Portuguese Plain Architecture, between Spices and Diamonds, 1521-1706 (1974) (0)
- Los empujes de la bóveda de crucería según el cálculo del gótico final (1992) (0)
- Ethnology and Ethnography: Florentine Codex: Book 4‐The Soothsayers, and Book 5‐The Omens. Charles E. Dibble and Arthur J. O. Anderson (1958) (0)
- Harold E. Wethey, Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru (1949) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Franciscan Awatovi. The Excavation and Conjectural Reconstruction of a 17th‐Century Spanish Mission Establishment at a Hopi Indian Town in Northeastern Arizona. Ross Gordon Montgomery, Watson Smith, and John Otis Brew, with an Appendix by J. Franklin Ewing, S.J (1951) (0)
- Los orígenes de los inkas (1947) (0)
- Ancient Oaxaca: Discoveries in Mexican Archeology and History. John Paddock, ed (1967) (0)
- El retrato de fray Juan de San Bernardo atribuído a Valdés Leal (1966) (0)
- Los cinco soles cosmogónicos y su proyección en Perú o La tradición mexicana en la cosmogonía andina (1988) (0)
- [Introduction] (1976) (0)
- The Tovar calendar : an illustrated Mexican manuscript ca. 1585 : reproduced with a commentary and handlist of sources on the Mexican 365-day year (1951) (0)
- Portales con columnas-serpiente en Yucatán y el altiplano (1983) (0)
- Catálogo de construcciones religiosas del estado de Hidalgo (1942) (0)
- The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico. Michael D Coe. Museum of Primitive Art, New York,1965. 126 pp., 208 ills. $8.95. (1966) (0)
- Chavin Art: An Inquiry into its Form and Meaning. John Howland Rowe. New York: (1963) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY: Florentine Codex, General History of the Things of New Spain, Book IX—The Merchants. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1961) (0)
- Santos. The Religious Folk Art of New Mexico (1943) (0)
- Francesco Paciotto, arquitecto (1963) (0)
- Ucareo and the Escorial (1942) (0)
- Treasures of Spain from. Charles V to Goya (1967) (0)
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