The Idea of a New Abstract Design Language: Interwar Avant-garde Movements and Their Impact on the Isotype Picturebooks by Marie Neurath

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Transmitting Knowledge by Isotype Picturebooks. The Legacy of Marie Neurath 1
5. Part I: The Social and Cultural Context of the Isotype Picturebooks
6. “What I Remember”: Autobiographical Reflections by Marie Neurath 23
7. The Idea of a New Abstract Design Language: Interwar Avant-garde Movements and Their Impact on the Isotype Picturebooks by Marie Neurath 43
8. Nonfiction Picturebook Design in the UK in the 1940s 65
9. Marie Neurath and Adprint 81
10. Part II: The Specific Design of Isotype Picturebooks
11. The Magic Knife: Marie Neurath’s Use of Sectional Drawings in Isotype Informational Picturebooks for Children 99
12. The Typography of Marie Neurath’s Isotype Picturebooks 127
13. Truth and Transformation in Isotype Picturebooks: Analyzing Railways under London (1948) by Marie Neurath 141
14. Marie Neurath’s Graphical Language for the Atom and Electromagnetism: A Message Round the World (1953) and Inside the Atom (1956) 165
15. Isotype and the Gendered Body in Children’s Books about Reproduction 193
16. Part III: Reception of the Isotype Picturebooks and the Isotype Method
17. A Viennese Wonder World of Isotype: Marie Neurath and Schönbrunn Verlag 215
18. Histories of Visual Education: The Reception of Marie Neurath’s Books in the Italian Postwar Milieu 237
19. Relating and Comparing Marie Neurath’s Work with Informational Books from Türkiye 265
20. Isotype Reloaded: An Interim Report on a Project in the Footsteps of Marie Neurath 289
21. Notes on Contributors
22. Index