FREE LECTURE AT CLARK ART INSTITUTE EXPLORES CUPID AS ‘MASTER OF THE WORLD’

April 3, 2018

Williamstown, Massachusetts—Clark Visiting Professor Nina Dubin presents the free lecture “Master of the World” at the Clark Art Institute on Tuesday, April 17 at 5:30 pm. The lecture will be held in the auditorium, located in the Clark’s Manton Research Center.

In the wake of the world’s first international financial crisis, Cupid claimed pride of place in French eighteenth-century art. The naked, winged infant deity personified not only the folly of love, but also the forces of inconstancy, mutability, and flightiness that were viewed as hallmarks of a modernizing credit economy.

Nina Dubin is associate professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010; 2012). Her work has been supported by institutions including the Getty Research Institute and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, where she was a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow from 2013–14. A specialist in European art since 1700, she is currently writing a book on love letter pictures in eighteenth-century France.

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