Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert - Paperback Valentine 2024 Janet Burnett Grossman is associate

Janet Burnett Grossman is associate curator of antiquities at the Getty Museum

ISBN 978-0-89236-670-5

8 1/2 x 11 inches

An early master of the technically complex carbro color process

and critical thinking about the built environment in the US and Europe during the third quarter of the 20th century

Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert - Paperback Valentine 2024 Janet Burnett Grossman is associateNina L. Dubin 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 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