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George Grosz, Amalie, 1922, Pen and brown ink, gouache, watercolor, and graphite on cream wove paper. Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago. The Joel Starrels, Jr. Memorial Collection, 1974.140 © Estate of George Grosz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Weimar Bodies: Fantasies About the Body in Weimar Art, Science and Medicine

November 4, 1998 – January 10, 1999

Weimar Bodies brought together art works and other kinds of images to explore the range of popular ideas about the human body in Weimar Germany and to provide a sense of how the short-lived Weimar Republic (1919–1933) saw itself.

The exhibition placed images of the body within a broad cultural perspective, and addressed the ways that vast and varied audiences responded to them. The exhibition included prints and drawings from the Smart Museum of Art and the Regenstein and Crerar Libraries, as well as contemporary anthropological, sociological and medical texts.

Catalog

Weimar Bodies: Fantasies About the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine | Published Winter 1998 via the University of Chicago Press

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Curator
Weimar Bodies was organized by Sander Gilman, Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, University of Chicago, and Stephanie D’Alessandro, formerly the Smart’s Coordinating Curator of Mellon Projects.
Support

Weimar Bodies was funded in part by a multiple-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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