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Dubin Nina L.

Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert

J Paul Getty Museum Pubns - 2 edizione (5 marzo 2013),

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Author
Dubin Nina L.
Publishers
J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, 2 edizione (5 marzo 2013)
Keyword
Arte Art
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

4ti, br, ed. 197pp. 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.
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