Originally conceived as a scathing comment on the 2000 presidential election, The Forbidden Pictures were set to run in The New York Times Magazine in the fall of 2000. However, after the tragic incident of 9/11 these images remained largely unseen. Published for the first time here Fink's tableaux set Bush administration look-alikes in the opulent world of Weimar-era painting, referencing the decadent depictions of Beckmann, Grosz and Dix. Presenting both sides of the political spectrum this book is a document of the extremities of rhetoric and partisanship.