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A Child's Machiavelli by Claudia Hart

A CHILD’S MACHIAVELLI by Claudia Hart is a series of animations inspired by Niccolò Machiavelli’s Renaissance treatise, THE PRINCE, the first book of political philosophy. Written and illustrated by Hart in 1995, the series began as a collection of oil paintings and a small catalog, later published in multiple editions as a children’s book.

While keeping to the meaning of the original, Hart rewrote THE PRINCE, reflecting street values and the voice of youth, as if the book, meant to advise kings on power, was a primer to teach good manners to small children.

Hart transformed her illustrations into Flash animations for an eBook in 2019. In 2022, at the height of the crypto bubble, she realized her old works could now open in a new software, so she changed them again, now into NFTs! They are narrated by Hart, recorded in 2010, with music and effects added in 2022 . Her brutal but true insights are reminders that while technologies may come and go, human frailties remain the same.

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3
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Created
Jul 2023
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Creator earnings
10%
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Chain
Ethereum
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