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]
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,
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