| Título: | Communicating the Modern Body: Fritz Kahn's Popular Images of Human Physiology as an Industrialized World |
| Autores: | Borck, Cornelius; McGill University |
| Fecha: | 2007-11-12 |
| Publicador: | Canadian Journal of Comumunication |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
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| Tema: | Visual communication; Print culture; Philosophy; History; Cultural |
| Descripción: | Abstract: The visualization of the human body has always been a highly popular affair, and popular science writing has been particularly perceptive as to how new media has revolutionized science. This article analyzes the intertwining of science, culture, and technology by investigating the lavishly illustrated publications of Fritz Kahn, arguably one of the most successful popular science writers internationally between 1920 and 1960. His illustrations developed a specific style of visualization that positioned the human body firmly in an industrial modernity of machine analogues, which he eventually copyrighted as a product line. This visual crossover between industrialization and science demonstrates surprisingly accurately how human nature becomes historically contingent and culturally encoded. Résumé : La représentation du corps humain a toujours été une activité très populaire, et les oeuvres de vulgarisation scientifique ont eu une perception particulièrement sensible aux manières dont les nouveaux médias ont révolutionné la science. Cet article analyse les interactions entre science, culture et technologie en examinant les publications richement illustrées de Fritz Kahn, un des auteurs de vulgarisation scientifique les plus populaires à l’échelle internationale entre 1920 et 1960. Par ses illustrations, il a développé un style spécifique de représentation situant le corps humain fermement dans le contexte d’une modernité industrielle privilégiant le rapport du corps à la machine, une approche qu’il a fini par faire breveter. Ce rapprochement visuel entre l’industrialisation et la science démontre avec une précision surprenante la variabilité historique et l’encodage culturel de la nature humaine. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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