Evil is experiencing an incomparable boom in culture and art. Surprisingly, traditional forms of appearance are predominant: devils and monsters are populating contemporary art, for example, in the work of Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Dinos & Jake Chapman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jonathan Meese, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman and many more. How are we to interpret this phenomenon? Natalie Lettner's profound analysis looks into their often-subversive intentions and unlocks surprising insights: the old images of evil are being used for feminist, postcolonial, or enlightenment-critical agendas. In many cases though the question arises: to what extent do the results correspond to the intentions?