From the conditions of individual bodies social scientists can gain rich understandings about the dynamics of the body politic. In this exhibition works of art can be conceived of as documents of physical and social experiences. What stories do these bodies tell? How do the settings in which they are pictured, the ways they are pictured, and the topics they engage shed light on social life? What body politics do they make visible? Featured artists include Robert Mapplethorpe, Glenn Ligon and Jo Spence.
The exhibition was organized with Susan E. Bell, the A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Science at Bowdoin College, to support her spring semester course entitled "Constructions of the Body."
