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Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject
Michael Sappol
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Description for Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 121. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 254 x 38. .
A poster first printed in Germany in 1926 depicts the human body as a factory populated by tiny workers doing industrial tasks. Devised by Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, Der Mensch als Industriepalast (or Man as Industrial Palace ) achieved international fame and was reprinted, in various languages and versions, all over the world. It was a new kind of image-an illustration that was conceptual and scientific, a visual explanation of how things work-and Kahn built a career of this new genre. In collaboration with a stable of artists (only some of ... Read more
A poster first printed in Germany in 1926 depicts the human body as a factory populated by tiny workers doing industrial tasks. Devised by Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, Der Mensch als Industriepalast (or Man as Industrial Palace ) achieved international fame and was reprinted, in various languages and versions, all over the world. It was a new kind of image-an illustration that was conceptual and scientific, a visual explanation of how things work-and Kahn built a career of this new genre. In collaboration with a stable of artists (only some of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517900212
SKU
V9781517900212
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Ref
99-13
About Michael Sappol
Michael Sappol is fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. He is the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America and Dream Anatomy, and the editor of A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire and Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine.
Reviews for Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject
The book is nicely illustrated and the history of our relationship between biology and mythology is brilliantly addressed. -The Daily Heller Densely academic, yet provocative enough for a lay person to extract some meaning. -Santa Fe New Mexican The merits of Michael Sappol's study are numerous. Sappol gives a first-rate overview of ... Read more