George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art HistoryAn 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 this biography,