Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]

Description:

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

Notes:
On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig, Germany, September 8, 2017 - January 7, 2018.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the German Museum of Books and Writing in the German National Library in Leipzig.
Title from cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Text in English; graphics in German.

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.

ISBN:

9783959051798 (paperback)
3959051794 (paperback)

Subject:

Kahn, Fritz, 1888-1968 Exhibitions.
Neurath, Otto, 1882-1945 Exhibitions.
Kahn, Fritz, 1888-1968
Neurath, Otto, 1882-1945
Graphic arts Europe History 20th century Exhibitions.
Scientific illustration Europe History 20th century Exhibitions.
Information visualization History Exhibitions.
Arts graphiques Europe Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Visualisation de l'information Histoire Expositions.
Illustration scientifique Europe Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Graphic arts
Information visualization
Scientific illustration
Information visualization History 20th century Exhibitions.
Europe

Form/genre:

publications. Exhibition
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Doudová, Helena, editor.
Jacobs, Stephanie, editor.
Rössler, Patrick, editor.
Neurath, Otto, 1882-1945
Kahn, Fritz, 1888-1968
Doudová, Helena editor.
Rössler, Patrick editor.
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, host institution.

Infographics 1920-1945

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301833
Call No.: BIB 248020
Status: Available