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Modern Man in the Making

Modern Man in the Making

Neurath, Otto

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ISBN10: 3037786760
ISBN13: 9783037786765
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Published: Apr 16 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 2.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.60 Depth: 10.60
Language: English

A gorgeous facsimile of an ultrarare, canonical volume from the pioneer of infographics, analyzing fundamental trends in the social, political and economic life of humanity

Otto Neurath's famous Modern Man in the Making, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 on, Neurath and his team had worked on a new visual language termed Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education). At a time that saw new mass media making hitherto unthinkable amounts of information available, Neurath felt the need for a systematic visualization explaining facts, statistical data and comparative numbers in simple ways. The book can be seen as one of the most influential predecessors of today's infographics. In the visuals, each symbol and color represents a certain group of objects or people, often compared repetitively over a certain time span. The topics covered in the book include diverse social issues of the time like mortality, health, employment, trade, education, mobility, migration and demographics.

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