DAVID M. HART'S WEBPAGE
Email: dmhart@mac.com
Webpage: http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/

© 2004
Updated: November 22, 2007

Goya, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"


Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)

What's New - latest material is on my blog Reflections on a Tortured World

  • April 2007: ANZAC Day Commemoration Address given to the Indianapolis Australian Society
  • April 29, 2006: Anzac Day Commemoration Address given to the Indianapolis Australian Society
  • February 28, 2006: My entry on "War and Peace in the Arts" [2.3 MB pdf] in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (New York: Scribner's and Sons, 2005), vol. 6, pp. 2454-2460.
  • January 26, 2006: Talk to Eastwood Middle School 7th Grade Social Studies Class on Everything you thought you wanted to know about Australia on Australia Day.
  • January 25, 2005: Talk on the history of the Bill of Rights to the Association of International Women, Indianapolis.
  • January 2, 2005: My blog with my peculiar take on world affairs.
  • May 9, 2004: A working paper entitled War and Peace in the Visual Arts.
  • March 7, 2004: Question and Answer Activity Sheet for 5th Graders at Allisonville Elementary School, Indianapolis for a field trip to the Indianapolis War Memorial Museum. In PDF format - Questions only 44 KB - Questions and my Answers 64 KB.
  • March 2004: a new website I have been constructing, the Online Library of Liberty, has gone live to the public.
  • January 25, 2004: Talk on Picasso's war art to the Honors Program in the Faculty of Arts, James Madison University, Virginia.
  • December 14, 2003: Presentation on the history of Bills of Rights to Allisonville Elementary School, Indianapolis.
  • November 7, 2003: with the recent demise of my old university teaching site I have begun transferring some material here, e.g. the Study Guides on War Art (see list below) and War Films, and my research on Gustave de Molinari.
  • October 28, 2003: the return of my research on the radical liberalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer
  • July 23, 2003: Go to my Lecture Outlines for the Cato University Summer Seminar, August 2-8, 2003 in San Diego, CA
  • February 19, 2003: There has been some interest in my study guides on Picasso following Colin Powell's speech at the UN last week. Apparently, a reproduction of "Guernica" in the UN building in New York was covered up in order not to "distract" the audience from his call to wage war against Iraq. The suffering of innocent civilian victims depicted in Picasso's painting still resonates after 60 odd years.


"The Tidal Wave of Liberty sweeping the World?"


Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" (1830)

Study Guides on War and Art

Some Quotes to Think About

 

 

Clicking on the link will open a small Quicktime movie (1.4 MB) which shows the scene where the school master tells the boys "how sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland".

Study Guides on War Films

The Classical Liberal Tradition

A Bit More About Me