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Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum offers a birds-eye view of their renegotiation of a legacy of the European Enlightenment to serve twenty-first-century populations across the globe

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not only for its meticulous reconstruction of a nearly lost career but for its broader critique of how art history is written

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George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History test tracking Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic MuseumThomas F. Reese An illuminating intellectual biography of a pioneering and singular figure in American art history. Art historian George A. Kubler (19121996) was a foundational scholar of ancient American art and archaeology as well as Spanish and Portuguese architecture. During over five decades at Yale University, he published seventeen books that included innovative monographs, major works of synthesis, and an influential theoretical treatise. In