Man as Industrial Palace

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January 4, 2004

Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.
Fritz Kahn
(1888-1968)

"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."

Kind of a reverse of Peter Ackroyd’s notion of the city as body, with reference to London [UK|US].

From U.S. National Library of Medicine: Dream Anatomy Exhibition
[via Tom Coates – thanks!]

Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) "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." Kind of a reverse of Peter…

8 responses to “Man as Industrial Palace”

Abstract Dynamics

January 5, 2004 at 9:26 am

LInkage: J04;2004

Mars Landing (video/quicktime Object) [via collision detection: "Six minutes of terror"] cityofsound: Man as Industrial Palace The Morning News -…

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mikel

January 6, 2004 at 7:07 am

excellent, i saw an English version of this poster with some slight mods, last summer in a shop window somewhere around Old St.
took a crap picture of it too, through the window

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creativity/machine

January 7, 2004 at 9:10 am

body/machine

cityofsound: Man as Industrial Palace, ripped from the Dream Anatomy Exhibition at the US National Library of Medicine….

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Jean

January 7, 2004 at 9:25 am

What a good find. Thanks, Dan!

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hoagie

January 9, 2004 at 8:47 am

good lord!! there’s an english version of this hanging in a pharmacist’s here in toronto – very faded. now i know the source.

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Dan

May 23, 2006 at 8:32 pm

Links originally sent to this post from other sites (before I turned trackbacks off due to spam)

» LInkage: J04;2004 from Abstract Dynamics
Mars Landing (video/quicktime Object) [via collision detection: "Six minutes of terror"] cityofsound: Man as Industrial Palace The Morning News -… [Read More]

» body/machine from creativity/machine
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Antonio

November 12, 2006 at 11:57 am

Is there someone who could tell me where can I buy this picture? I’m from italy

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Ray

July 2, 2007 at 1:52 pm

Is there someone who could tell me where can I buy this picture? I’m from America

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