Body Modern : Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject /
"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...
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Fritz Kahn, Modernity, and the Invention of Conceptual Scientific Illustration
- Reading Kahn and the Homunculus
- "Much Better than Words": Pictured Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Visuality
- Ocularcentric! Conceptual Illustration at Work in the "Great Loop"
- Variety Show: The Studio of Kahn and Its Visual Devices
- Kahn's Take Away: Conceptual Scientific Illustration's Iconophilic Diaspora
- "To Picture the Body": Kahn's Images in the Postmodern Afterlife
- Epilogue: Towards a Theory of the Homunculus.