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 Musuem and the Regenstein and Crerar Libraries, as well as contemporary anthropological, sociological and medical texts.