Futures & Ruins - Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert (Paperback)

This is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. In this provocative study, Hubert Robert's paintings of urban ruins are interpreted as manifestations of a new consciousness of time, one shaped by the uncertainty of an economy characterized by the anxiety-inducing expansion of credit, frenzied speculation on the stock market, and foolhardy ventures in real estate. At the centre of this lively narrative lie Robert's depictions of the ruins of Paris - macabre and spectacular paintings of desolation - on the eve of the French Revolution. Drawing on a vast range of materials, Futures & Ruins interprets Robert's artworks as harbingers of a modern appetite for self-destruction: the paintings are examined as expressions of the pleasures and perils of a risk economy.

General

Imprint:	Getty Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Getty Publications -
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Dubin
Dimensions:	266 x 190 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-1-60606-140-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN:	1-60606-140-2
Barcode:	9781606061404

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