Futures & Ruins: EighteenthCentury Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert,Used

Futures & Ruins: EighteenthCentury Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert,Used

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In this timely and provocative study, Hubert Roberts paintings of urban ruins are interpreted as manifestations of a new consciousness of time, one shaped by the uncertainties of an economy characterized by the dreadinducing expansion of credit, frenzied speculation on the stock exchange, and bold ventures in real estate. As the favored artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersections between aesthetics and modernitys dawning business culture.At the center of this lively narrative lie Roberts depictions of the ruins of Parismacabre and spectacular paintings of fires and demolitions created on the eve of the French Revolution. Drawing on a vast range of materials, Futures & Ruins understands these artworks as harbingers of a modern appetite for destruction. The paintings are examined as expressions of the pleasures and perils of a risk economy. This captivating accountlavishly illustrated with rarely reproduced objectsrecovers the critical significance of the eighteenthcentury cult of ruins and of Roberts art for our times.

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