Beyond simply representing the human body as anatomical, printmakers have evoked the human form to celebrate its communicative and affective possibilities through poses, gestures, costumes, facial expressions, and cosmetics. On these walls are people whose identities have been shaped not only by physical tools like burins, ink, and pigment, but also by the immaterial forces of observation, imagination, culture, and curiosity. From the intense colors of Edo woodblock printing to the vibrantly-sketched energy of Berthe Morisot’s drypoint, to the almost mundane familiarity of the celebrity subjects of Andy Warhol’s screenprint portraits, artists present different aspects of the human condition, both intimate and public. Some artists utilize the topography of an aging face, for example, to redefine notions of beauty; others rely on the performance of gesture and costume to define, and sometimes challenge, conventional gender roles, revealing them to be social and culturally relative creations. In these prints, the human form materializes to connect to viewers so they might feel, fear, love, imagine, laugh, cry, and intimately experience the human body as a constructed work of art.