- Let ’Em Eat Cake
- During Trisha Thoon’s report on American troops making themselves at home in one of Saddam’s palaces, an American soldier is seen examining the censored Delacroix painting (a black bar is painted over Liberty’s breasts). CONTEXT
Liberty Leading the People
La Liberté guidant le peuple is a painting by Eugene Delacroix.
In reality: Delacroix’s painting is an allegorial depiction of Liberty and the 1830 Revolution, which overthrew the Bourbon king. The use of the painting, especially with a censored Liberty, points out the irony of the American liberation of Iraq, and recalls Attorney General Ashcroft’s draping the statues of Justice to cover her breasts.
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