{"id":203441,"date":"2026-04-03T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=203441"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:47:07","slug":"topic-images-liberty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/topic-images-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic &#8211; Images of Liberty and Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"393\" src=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LibertyLeadingPeople1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LibertyLeadingPeople1000.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LibertyLeadingPeople1000-300x118.jpg 300w, http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LibertyLeadingPeople1000-768x302.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sch-update-line\" align=\"center\">\nRevised: 4 June 2026\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"#introduction\">Introduction<\/a> | <a href=\"#further-reading\">Further Reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"sch-wrap sch-wrap--wide\">\n\n<h2 id=\"introduction\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n<p>This page is being redesigned and reorganised. In the meantime, see these pages from the old website on this topic.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"further-reading\">Further Reading<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"scholarium-frame\">\n\n<table class=\"sch-two-col\">\n<tbody>\n\n<tr>\n\n<td align=\"center\" class=\"sch-col-image\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LiberteHydra1793-300.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Title page\">\n    <p align=\"center\">&#8220;Liberty who has overturned the hydra of tyranny and smashed the yoke of despotism&#8221; (1793)<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<td valign=\"top\" class=\"sch-col-text\">\n\n<p><strong>Some things to look at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n <ul>\n                <li>Art and Propaganda &#8211; [<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Art\/politics.html\">Master List<\/a>] <\/li>\n                <li>See my collection of &#8220;Images of Liberty and Power&#8221; which is divided into &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Art\/politics.html\">Art and Politics<\/a>&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Art\/war.html\">&#8220;War and Art&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n                <li>The 18thC French Robin Hood: the Anti-Tax Smuggler<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Art\/Mandrin\/index.html\"> Louis Mandrin (1725-1755)<\/a><\/li>\n                <li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Levellers\/Anthologies\/Art-Levellers\/index.html\">The Art of the Levellers<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; 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<\/li>\n                <li><a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/FrenchClassicalLiberals\/LaBoetie\/CoverArt\/index.html\">The Cover Art of the <em>Discours<\/em><\/a>: a collection of interesting covers of various editions of Bo\u00e9tie&#8217;s &#8220;Discourse on Voluntary Servitude&#8221;<\/li>\n                <li>an illustrated &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/FrenchClassicalLiberals\/Bastiat\/Books\/Sampling_TheLaw\/Bastiat_IllustratedTheLaw.html\">Bastiat for Dummies<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; FEE&#8217;s illustrated edition of <em>The Law<\/em> from the late 1940s<\/li>\n                <li>an <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/GermanClassicalLiberals\/Hayek\/IllustratedRoadSerfdom\/index.html\">illustrated version<\/a> of Hayek&#8217;s <em>The Road to Serfdom<\/em> (1945)<\/li>\n                <li>A Lecture on Art and Propaganda: &#8220;The Culture of Obedience and the Subversion of State Propaganda&#8221; (IHS Summer Seminar, June 2015) (<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Lectures\/2015\/IHS\/3-ImagesLibertyPower\/IHS2015-ImagesofLibertyPower.pdf\">PDF of images<\/a>)<\/li>\n                <li>An Anti-Socialist Cartoon from 1848    : Am\u00e9d\u00e9e de No\u00e9, dit Cham, &#8220;Ce\n                  qu&#8217;on appelle des id\u00e9es nouvelles en 1848&#8221; (What are called &#8220;New\n                  Ideas&#8221; in 1848). <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Art\/FeaturedImages\/NewIdeas1848\/index.html\">[Discussed\n                here<\/a>.]<\/li>\n                <li>My article on  \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Papers\/WarPeace-Arts2004\/WarAndPeaceArts2004-final.html\">War and Peace in the Arts<\/a>,\u201d in <em>New Dictionary of the History of Ideas<\/em> (2005).<\/li>\n<li>A lecture on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Lectures\/2004\/Picasso2.html\">Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): From the Spanish Civil war to Vietnam<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n              <\/ul>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tbody>\n\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revised: Introduction | Further Reading Introduction This page is being redesigned and reorganised. In the meantime, see these pages from the old website on this topic. Further Reading &#8220;Liberty who has overturned the hydra of tyranny and smashed the yoke of despotism&#8221; (1793) Some things to look at: Art and Propaganda &#8211; [Master List] See &#8230; <a title=\"Topic &#8211; Images of Liberty and Power\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/topic-images-liberty\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Topic &#8211; Images of Liberty and Power\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[107],"class_list":["post-203441","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204691,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203441\/revisions\/204691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=203441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}