Futures & ruins
eighteenth-century Paris and the art of Hubert Robert
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Author
Contributions
- Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808. - Contributor
Publication
2010 - Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, California
Language
English
Word Count
49,250 words, Guess
Page Count
197 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781606060230
- ISBN-101606060236
- Library of Congress Control Number2010000637
- OCLC Control Number499178454
- Better World Books9781606060230
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24019462M
Classifications
- DDC759.4
- LCCND553.R6 D83 2010
- LCCND553.R6D83 2010
Alternate Titles
- Futures and ruins
Description
"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."--Publisher's description.
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- In art
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