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Landscape with horse at center, brawling humans on both sides, and text reading “ANTI-RETRO”

Andrea Carlson

2018

Winged, horned creature with Donald Trump head & suit on red background, burger in lower left corner

Beast from the West, from the portfolio Trumped 2.0

Brandon Sanderson

2020

Sculpture with three sections of silhouetted figures with caricatured, stereotyped African American

The Bush, Skinny, De-Boning

Kara Walker

2002

Seven puppets –including Hitler, a knight, and Uncle Sam – performing for a skeleton in a gas mask

Mabel Dwight

1934

Horizontal white squiggle in heartbeat pattern over hazy background with text reading "Fear 1912"

Fear, 1912, from the portfolio The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854 - 1913)

Dario Robleto

2017

Black-and-white print of monstrous person vomiting black liquid onto heads of people below

Fear Smear, from the series The Vomiters

Diane Thodos

2004

Gequälte (Tortured Creatures)

Gequälte (Tortured Creatures)

Adolf de Haer

1920

Cover of box with red and gold design and the artist’s name and "THE GREAT FARCE” in a carnival font

The Great Farce Portable Theater

Federico Solmi

2019

Tree in a cemetery with many people hanging from it, and a scroll of text starting with “PTSD”

Hanging Tree, from the portfolio War is Trauma

Jeremy Begren

2011

Industrial Frankenstein (III)

Industrial Frankenstein (III)

Henry Simon

1933

Assemblage of photographs and boxing glove painted with dripping red paint against a dark background

Memoirs of Hadrian #32

Lyle Ashton Harris

2002

Four grotesque winged figures surround a woman who has the face of Barack Obama and gestures upwards

Return to Goya No. 9

Enrique Chagoya

2010

Clear, nearly white mat in the shape of a doormat with a pattern suggesting human intestines

Mona Hatoum

1996

Oval mirror shows Black male-presenting figure seated hand to head at vanity in dimly lit room.

(scrying; you loop)

S*an D. Henry-Smith

2020

Rockwell Kent

1937

Print of nude figure crouched and gesturing in front of a background with large, mask-like faces

Harry Sternberg

1935

Color photo of person with long dark hair over their face wearing a white outfit with pine tree

Untitled #65 (by proxy)

Anna Gaskell

1999

A fair-skinned woman stands in front of a mirror in a black dress, looking to the left of the camera

Untitled Film Still #14

Cindy Sherman

1978

Image foregrounded with toy skeletons; midground a blurred toy figure shovels a toy skeleton

Untitled, from the series Mein Kampf

David Levinthal

1994

Blurry photo of toy soldier pointing a rifle at the back of toy woman wearing long dress with apron

Untitled, from the series Mein Kampf

David Levinthal

1994

Blurry photo of two toy soldiers pointing rifles at two naked toy women

Untitled, from the series Mein Kampf

David Levinthal

1994

A blurry image of a prison camp with barbed wire above a group of toy soldiers and civilians

Untitled, from the series Mein Kampf

David Levinthal

1994

Montage of various cultural figures and themes, including an artist, Aztec figure, and cartoon girl

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Enrique Chagoya

2000

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