CRAZY GERMAN POSTER
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Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.
Fritz Kahn(1888-1968)[author]
Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.
Fritz Kahn(1888-1968)[author]
"Kahn’s modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system as "industrial palace," really a chemical plant, was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s most advanced."
-Amount of detail and activity give it a sense of narrative, intruige and interactivity
-Compares chemical engineering to a human body - helping the viewer relate to it
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