Futures & Ruins - Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert
Futures & Ruins - Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert This is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between…
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Futures & Ruins - Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert
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. 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. 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.
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.