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The image shows a woman in a black dress, wearing a gold medal engraved with an icon of a book. She smiles brightly, looking slightly to the left of the camera. The woman is Jesmyn Ward, having just received the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction.

The image is a black-and-white professional headshot of a woman looking directly into the camera with a pensive expression. The woman in the picture is Parul Sehgal, a critic for the New York Times.

Käthe Kollwitz's The Mothers (Die Mütter), created between 1921 and 1923, is a woodcut print from her "War" (Krieg) portfolio. Inspired by the loss of her son in World War I, it depicts a group of mothers forming a protective barrier around their…

The 1910 painting "Self-Portrait with Arm Twisted Above Head" by Egon Schiele is a watercolor and charcoal (sometimes described as oil) self-portrait showing the artist in a contorted pose, his arm raised and twisted above his head. The depiction is…

Sophie Calle's "Blind" is a series of works created in 1986 where she interviewed people blind from birth, asking them to describe their concept of beauty. Calle then photographed both the individual and her own photographic interpretation of their…

This 1915 piece by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is an Expressionist oil painting depicting the artist in his studio, rather than on a battlefield. He wears his military uniform, but his right arm is a bloody stump, symbolizing the emotional and potentially…

This image shows the aftermath of significant flood damage. In front of a brick building, a large pile of debris is heaped on the sidewalk and lawn. The debris includes broken furniture, mattresses, wood, and various household items. The scene looks…

The road is cracked and empty, and on one side, there are broken trees stripped of most of their leaves. Debris—such as broken wood, metal, and household items—is scattered along the roadside. A fallen orange construction barrel lies in the…

This is an illustration from the book of Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. It is a black and white sketch of Frankenstein over the skeleton of The Monster. There are science instruments surrounding the skeleton.

The cover is dominated by dark, moody tones—mostly shades of gray, blue, and black. It shows a flooded urban landscape, representing post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. A ruined building stands precariously. Overhead, storm clouds loom, casting a…