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Image factories : infographics 1920-1945 : Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath et al.

Title

Image factories : infographics 1920-1945 : Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath et al. / edited by Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs & Patrick Rössler.

Publication

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]
©2017

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Description

142 pages, 34 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits; 21 cm

Summary

"At the beginning of the twentieth century, the newly emerging mass media began circulating an unprecedented volume of information, leading to a huge surge in visualization techniques. The abundance of news required new forms of representation to enable complex connections to be understood at a glance. This is what prompted the invention of infographics as a visual medium. The publication Image Factories. Infographics 1920-1945 presents groundbreaking infographics by Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath and numerous graphic designers who worked with them to realize their visual concepts. Starting from two different traditions, the Austrian economist Otto Neurath and the German physician Fritz Kahn developed their distinctive visual languages almost simultaneously, in each case based on a formal stylization of the human body. While Neurath's concept of the "Isotype" generated pictogram-like graphics as counting units for the quantification of social realities, Kahn's "Factories of the Human Body" employed sequences of mechanistically interpreted diagrams in which the human being was depicted as an "Industrial Palace." This book, published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the German Museum of Books and Writing in the German National Library in Leipzig, presents historical pictorial material from 1920 to 1945"--Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Infographics 1920-1945

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Note

On occasion of an exhibition held at the Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig, Germany, September 8, 2017 - January 7, 2018.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

Text in English; graphics and facsimiles in German.

Contents

Fritz Kahn. Infographics. Introduction -- The age of the eye: Fritz Kahn and Otto Neurath / Bernd Stiegler -- Imagination and (the) imaginary / Vilém Flusser -- Image factories. Infographic concepts 1920-1945 / Helena Doudova -- Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath. Infographics. Fritz Kahn: A "creative director of artistic-scientific illustration / Helena Doudova in conversation with Uta von Debschitz -- The isotype work / Otto Neurath -- Isotype after 1945 / Helen Doudova in conversation with Eric Kindel -- Gender relations : visual essay / Patrick Rössler -- Biographies.

Call Number

JQD 19-179

ISBN

9783959051798
3959051794

OCLC

1026415617

Title

Image factories : infographics 1920-1945 : Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath et al. / edited by Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs & Patrick Rössler.

Publisher

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Text in English; graphics and facsimiles in German.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Doudová, Helena, editor.

Jacobs, Stephanie, editor.

Rössler, Patrick, editor.

Kahn, Fritz, 1888-1968. Works. Selections.

Neurath, Otto, 1882-1945. Works. Selections.

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQD 19-179

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