Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype

Henning, M. (2008) Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype. In: Sublimely Visual: The Art of Text, University of Bristol, England, 5 - 7 September 2008. [Unpublished]

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Abstract

The Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath was a prolific writer or books, journal articles and letters and invented an international picture language known as Isotype. This paper looks in detail at the relationship between this picture language and Neurath’s signature - a cartoon drawing of an elephant. It considers them in relation to other understandings (contemporary to Neurath) of the symbol in art and of the visuality of text, and looks at the pictorial communication that takes place in his correspondence, as other writers draw in response.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Isotype, Otto Neurath, pictograms, language
Faculty/Department:	~Pre-2010 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Creative Arts > School of Creative Arts > Department of Culture, Media and Drama Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education > Department of Creative Industries
ID Code:	11041
Deposited By:	G. Brown
Deposited On:	20 Aug 2010 14:53
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2012 15:59