Living Life In Pictures
Isotype As Modernist Cultural Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20187488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Henning (0000-0003-3798-7227, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 70 |
| Pages | 41-59 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Formations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2378 • E-ISSN: 1741-0789 |
| Publisher | Lawrence and Wishart (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3898/newf.70.03.2010 |
| OpenAlex | W1996242282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Vienna Method of Picture Statistics, also known as Isotype, has become a means for historians and theorists of modern culture to directly link visual modernism with modern social science and philosophy, specifically with logical positivism and Taylorism/Fordism. Isotype has been described in terms of Taylorist standardization, rationalism, ‘transparent construction’ and functionalism. By delineating the understanding of these terms held by Isotype’s inventor Otto Neurath and his friends and colleagues, and contextualising Isotype in relation to recent reassessments of Neurath’s other work, I suggest that Isotype participated in a modernism that was understood by its proponents in ways that were more plural, and pluralist, than we now give them credit
Aesthetics · Antibody · Art · Biology · Cultural practice · Isotype · Sociology · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Genetics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |