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

ISBN-13: 9781606061404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 210 str.

Nina L. Dubin

Opis

As the artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. This study 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.