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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Gardner Coates, Victoria C.     Subjects     Democracy -- History.     Art -- Political aspects -- History.     Masterpiece, Artistic.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gardner Coates, Victoria C.       by title:      David's sling [elect...         MARC Display

David's sling [electronic resource] : a history of democracy in ten works of art / by Victoria Coates. by Gardner Coates, Victoria C. New York : Encounter Books, 2014. Subjects Democracy -- History.   Art -- Political aspects -- History.   Masterpiece, Artistic. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0D29D0F7-7679-4EF5-817D-7BC98AFBD49A This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{0D29D0F7-7679-4EF5-817D-7BC98AFBD49A}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781594037221 electronic bk. 1594037221 electronic bk. 9781594037214 1594037213 Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Throughout western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of works from the Parthenon to Michelangelo's David to Picasso's Guernica, histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the works of art covered in this book but relatively few know why they were commissioned, what was happening in the culture that produced them, and what they were meant to achieve. Even scholars who have worked on these objects for decades often miss the big picture as these objects have been traditionally studied in isolation. The goal of this book is to integrate the pursuits of creative excellence and human freedom on the grounds that this synthetic approach will bring a fresh, new perspective into both lines of inquiry. David's Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them. The book thus fuses political and art history with a judiciously-applied dose of creative reconstruction to craft a lively narrative around each key work of art and the free system that inspired it. David's Sling tells their story"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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