{"id":36126,"date":"2025-07-31T05:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36126\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:09:10","slug":"man-as-industrial-palace-watch-an-animation-of-the-famous-1926-lithograph-that-depicts-the-human-body-as-a-modern-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36126\/","title":{"rendered":"Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human Body as a Modern Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

In 1926, Fritz Kahn<\/a>, a Ger\u00adman gyne\u00adcol\u00ado\u00adgist and anato\u00admy text\u00adbook author, pro\u00adduced a lith\u00ado\u00adgraph called Der Men\u00adsch als Indus\u00adtriepalast (Man as Indus\u00adtri\u00adal Palace)<\/a> that\u00a0depict\u00aded the human body as a fac\u00adto\u00adry, a\u00a0chem\u00adi\u00adcal plant of sorts. Kah\u00adn\u2019s body came com\u00adplete with\u00a0mechan\u00adi\u00adcal lungs, a rock-sort\u00ading stom\u00adach, gears for a throat, and a switch\u00adboard for a brain, and it illus\u00adtrat\u00aded rather metaphor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly the degree to which indus\u00adtri\u00adal\u00adiza\u00adtion had tak\u00aden over West\u00adern life, cre\u00adat\u00ading deep anx\u00adi\u00adety for some and curios\u00adi\u00adty for oth\u00aders.<\/p>\n

More than 80 years lat\u00ader,\u00a0Hen\u00adning Led\u00ader\u00ader<\/a>, a Ger\u00adman artist, brought Kah\u00adn\u2019s mechan\u00adi\u00adcal body to life with some gift\u00aded ani\u00adma\u00adtion. To learn more about Led\u00ader\u00ader\u2019s project, you will want to spend more time on IndustriePalast.com<\/a> and par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly with this\u00a0help\u00adful PDF<\/a>. Oth\u00ader ani\u00adma\u00adtions by Led\u00ader\u00ader can be found on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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