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Minnesota Starvation Study recruitment brochure that says "Will you starve that they be better fed", featuring an image of children with empty bowls.

A knife in the lower left corner draws attention to the artist's inscription, a curiously cruel association with the torture taking place. Agatha, subjected to a series of gender-specific tests and torments, emerged virtuous and victorious. In a work…

from the article "They Starved So That Others Be Better Fed: Remembering Ancel Keys and the Minnesota Experiment"

Romare Bearden's collages are some of his most powerful and expressive works. Stylistically, they reference the Cubist works of Picasso and Braque, whom Bearden met in Paris in 1950, and the photomontages of the Berlin Dadaists whom Bearden was…

Entitled East of Eden: Vietnam, this chapter became a documentation of people who were physically maimed by the war that officially ended over thirty years ago. East of Eden: Vietnam was partly inspired by my experience growing up in Vietnam with my…