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Futures & Ruins – Eighteenth–Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert
. Dubin
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606061404
SKU
V9781606061404
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99-32
About . Dubin
Nina L. Dubin is assistant professor of art history at the Uni of Illinois, Chicago. Hubert Robert (1733-1808) was a French landscape painter who pioneered scenes of ruined buildings, earning him the moniker Robert des Ruines. Many of his paintings are accurate images of real buildings, but he also produced invented scenes including pictures of contemporary buildings as they might ... Read more
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