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Book Title
Futures & Ruins : Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert
ISBN
9781606061404

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Getty Publications
ISBN-10
1606061402
ISBN-13
9781606061404
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150623177

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
210 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Futures and Ruins : Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Europe / France, History / Baroque & Rococo, History / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Author
Nina L. Dubin
Subject Area
Art, History
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
25 Oz
Item Length
10.5 in
Item Width
7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
A meticulously researched study. . . . Both historically stimulating and morally engaging. . . . Filled with dazzling color illustrations."— CAA Reviews, "Nina L. Dubin has analyzed Robert closely and compellingly. In doing so she has planted an important tree in the historiographically evergreen forest of works on Parisian art in the Revolutionary Era."-- European Review of History, Nina L. Dubin has analyzed Robert closely and compellingly. In doing so she has planted an important tree in the historiographically evergreen forest of works on Parisian art in the Revolutionary Era."— European Review of History, "A meticulously researched study. . . . Both historically stimulating and morally engaging. . . . Filled with dazzling color illustrations."-- CAA Reviews
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
759.4
Synopsis
In this timely and provocative study, Hubert Robert's 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 dread-inducing 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 modernity's dawning business culture. At the center of this lively narrative lie Robert's depictions of the ruins of Paris--macabre 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 account--lavishly illustrated with rarely reproduced objects--recovers the critical significance of the eighteenth-century cult of ruins and of Robert's art for our times.
LC Classification Number
ND553.R6D83 2013

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