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Description: The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things
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PublisherYale University Press
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00157.001
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Contents
Symbol, Form, and Duration
The Limitations of Biography: Individual entrances. Talent and genius. Biological and physical metaphors. Scientists and artists
The Historian's Commitment: The divisions of the arts
The Nature of Actuality: Of arts and stars. Signals. Relays
Self-signals and Adherent Signals: Iconographic studies. Configurational analysis. The taxonomy of meaning
Formal Sequences: Linked solutions. Open and closed sequences. Fashions
Prime Objects and Replications: Mutants. Diagnostic difficulties. Serial appreciation. Technical renewals. The invisible chain. Solitary and gregarious artists
Serial Position, Age, and Change: The rule of series. Systematic age. A Mexican paradigm. Linguistic change
Invention and Variation: Artistic invention. Convention and invention
Replication: Permanence and change. The anatomy of routine. Historical drift
Discard and Retention: Obsolescence and ritual. Aesthetic fatigue
Fast and Slow Happening: The typology of artists' lives. Tribes, courts, and cities
The Shapes of Time: Positional values. Periods and their lengths. The indiction as module. Intermittent classes. Arrested classes. Extended series. Wandering series. Simultaneous series. Lenses vs. fibers of duration
Finite Invention: The purist reduction of knowledge. Widening the gate. The finite world
The Equivalence of form and Expression: Iconological diminutions. The deficiencies of style. The plural present
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