Nina Dubin (University of Illinois Chicago): Eros, Inc.: Cupid, Capital, and the Crash of 1720
When:
Thursday, November 3, 2022
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 1515, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Elizabeth Upenieks
(847) 491-7597
Group: Department of Art History
Category: Academic, Fine Arts
Description:
Amidst the world’s first international bubble economy, French artists enlisted Cupid, the most notoriously volatile of deities, to embody both the tumultuous expansion of credit and the trademarks of an overheated market. As exemplified in the artworks explored in this talk, the Mississippi Bubble coincided with cultural efforts (arguably ongoing) to make sense of a boom-and-bust financial system by drawing on the equally mysterious workings of love.