Body modern : Fritz Kahn, scientific illustration, and the homuncular subject /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sappol, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Kahn, Fritz, > 1888-1968.
Kahn, Fritz, > 1888-1968
1900-1999
Scientific illustration > History > 20th century.
Visual communication in science > History > 20th century.
Science in popular culture > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Human beings.
Illustration scientifique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Communication visuelle en sciences > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sciences dans la culture populaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
Êtres humains.
Homo sapiens (species)
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Human beings
Science in popular culture
Scientific illustration
Visual communication in science
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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