Topic – Images of Liberty and Power

Revised: 4 June 2026

Introduction

This page is being redesigned and reorganised. In the meantime, see these pages from the old website on this topic.

Art and Propaganda – [Master List]
See my collection of “Images of Liberty and Power” which is divided into “Art and Politics” and “War and Art”
The 18thC French Robin Hood: the Anti-Tax Smuggler Louis Mandrin (1725-1755)
“The Art of the Levellers” – a collection (with commentary) of some of the more interesting title pages of Leveller pamphlets from the 1640s, some of which contain striking woodcuts as illustrations
The Cover Art of the Discours: a collection of interesting covers of various editions of Boétie’s “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”
an illustrated “Bastiat for Dummies” – FEE’s illustrated edition of The Law from the late 1940s
an illustrated version of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (1945)
A Lecture on Art and Propaganda: “The Culture of Obedience and the Subversion of State Propaganda” (IHS Summer Seminar, June 2015) (PDF of images)
An Anti-Socialist Cartoon from 1848 : Amédée de Noé, dit Cham, “Ce qu’on appelle des idées nouvelles en 1848” (What are called “New Ideas” in 1848). [Discussed here.]
My article on “War and Peace in the Arts,” in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (2005).
A lecture on “Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): From the Spanish Civil war to Vietnam“