Samuel Bak, Equivalents , 1999. Pencil on paper. 12.25″ × 12.5″. Image courtesy of Pucker Gallery, Boston More

Samuel Bak. Departure , 1989–1996. Oil on linen. 80 × 100 cm. Image courtesy of Pucker Gallery, Boston More

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Adam and Eve and the Sweat and the Pain by Samuel Bak. Samuel Bak, Image Courtesy of Pucker Gallery ( puckergallery.com ) More

Looking for the Dreamer by Samuel Bak. Samuel Bak, Image Courtesy of Pucker Gallery ( puckergallery.com ) More

Top: Moses X Ball Looters will be shot! by Moses X Ball. An image of a Hurricane Katrina survivor painted on objects found on site in the aftermath of the hurricane. More

Image © 2008 by Bryan Collier. Lincoln and Douglas © 2008 by Nikki Giovanni. Used by permission of Henry Holt & Co, LLC. All rights reserved. Some abolitionists believed the Constitution was “a pact with the Devil because it seemed to sanction enslavement,” Livingston writes More

AP image/Beth Keiser Animal rights activists in Seattle don turtle costumes to protest rulings by the World Trade Organization in 1999. “The celebratory protest culture of Seattle became a wellspring of inspiration for Alter-Leftists to come,” Heller writes. More

Creative Commons/Bridgeman Images/Sebastian Vrancx Illustrating the biblical quote, “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch,” Sebastian Vrancx’s The Blind Leading the Blind invokes a link between blindness and sin, portraying men with cataracts and corneal leukemia who do More

Polaris Images/Christopher Brown The stories of child brides, like the girl in the photo above, rarely receive the same level of attention as war or terrorism, but these forms of violence are closely connected. More

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American boxer Barney Ross embodied types of masculinity associated with both whiteness and the new image of Jewishness More

Creative Commons/StarblindKing Is Miley Cyrus the paragon of sexual freedom? Or is she obe diently reproducing an image of female sexuality constructed by mass culture? More

“To be conscious is to be part of a larger whole,” the author writes. “This interrelational characteristic has spiritual implications.” The image above is part of a series of divination cards intended to help viewers access their inner intuition. Understanding this and other levels of awareness More