David's Sling - by Victoria C Gardner Coates (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 these works--from the Parthenon to Michelangelo's <i>David</i> to Picasso's <i>Guernica</i>--histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the artworks covered in this book but relatively few know why they were commissioned, what was happening in the culture that produced them, or what they were meant to achieve. Even scholars who have studied them for decades often miss the big picture by viewing them in isolation from a larger story of human striving. <p/><i>David's Sling</i> 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. Fusing political and art history with a judicious dose of creative reconstruction, Victoria Coates has crafted a lively narrative around each artistic object and the free system that inspired it. <p/>This book integrates the themes of creative excellence and political freedom to bring a fresh, new perspective to both. In telling the stories of ten masterpieces, <i>David's Sling</i> invites reflection on the synergy between liberty and human achievement.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Victoria C. Gardner Coates is a cultural historian who received her Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in <i>The Sixteenth-Century Journal, Gazette des Beaux-Arts</i> and <i>Renaissance Studies</i>. As the director of research in the office of Donald Rumsfeld, Dr. Coates provided editorial support for his best-selling memoir <i>Known and Unknown.</i> She has served as a senior fellow at the Commonwealth Foundation, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a consulting curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is currently a senior staff member for national security at the United States Senate and the senior advisor for foreign policy for Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign. Dr. Coates lives in Philadelphia with her husband, two children and two dogs.<br>
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