The Drawing Center

The Body of the Line was the first U.S. museum exhibition of drawings by the influential Russian filmmaker Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948), who revolutionized the world of cinema with such renowned films as The Battleship Potemkin (1925). The exhibition offered a rare opportunity to view striking works on paper by one of the seminal figures of early motion-picture direction. The exhibition was produced by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Montreal, and curated by Jean Gagnon.