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{"id":4954,"date":"2014-09-12T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2021-10-21T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:05:48","slug":"a-poster-to-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/09\/12\/a-poster-to-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poster to Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Stephen J. Greenberg<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As a rule, items are <a title=\"National Library of Medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/about\/acquisitions.html\">included<\/a> in the NLM\u2019s History of Medicine Division collection because of their medical or, more broadly, their scientific significance.\u00a0 But the boundaries between science and art have always been porous, and an exhibition loan request from an art museum is not unusual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4958\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/09\/12\/a-poster-to-pittsburgh\/pitt-blog1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog1.jpg?fit=1600%2C1157&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1157\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Pitt blog1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog1.jpg?fit=300%2C217&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog1.jpg?fit=840%2C607&ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4958 size-medium\" title=\"Configuring Disciplines: Fragments of an Encyclopedia.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog1.jpg?resize=300%2C216\" alt=\"A promotional image for the exhibition Configuring Disciplines: Fragments of an Encyclopedia.\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Recently, we were contacted by <a title=\"University of Pittsburgh\" href=\"https:\/\/haa.secure.pitt.edu\/person\/isabelle-chartier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isabelle Chartier<\/a>, Curator at the <a title=\"University of Pittsburgh\" href=\"https:\/\/haa.secure.pitt.edu\/art-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Art Gallery<\/a>, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Chartier works with Professors\u00a0 <a title=\"University of Pittsburgh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haa.pitt.edu\/person\/christopher-drew-armstrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drew Armstrong<\/a> and <a title=\"University of Pittsburgh\" href=\"https:\/\/haa.secure.pitt.edu\/person\/josh-ellenbogen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Ellenbogen<\/a> to teach a graduate seminar in the department of the History of Art and Architecture at Pitt, and part of the course requirement is for the students to curate an exhibit in the gallery space.\u00a0 Their latest project is an exhibition is entitled <a title=\"University of Pittsburgh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haa.pitt.edu\/news-events\/configuring-disciplines-fragments-encyclopedia-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Configuring Disciplines: Fragments of an Encyclopedia<\/em><\/a>, \u201ca collaborative exhibition project based on research by students in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. The exhibition examines modes of visualization used to represent knowledge in a variety of academic disciplines that have developed from the Enlightenment to the Modern period (18th\u201320th centuries). Books and artworks drawn from Pittsburgh libraries and museums raise questions about the intrinsic qualities of two- and three-dimensional media (engraving, photography, digital projection, plastic models, buildings) and their function within fields of inquiry ranging from astronomy, botany and physics to aesthetics, ethnography and history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Objects to be included in the exhibition were requested from local institutions such as the University of Pittsburgh Hillman Special Collections, Frick Fine Arts Library and Falk Library of the Health Sciences, the Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Warhol Museum, the William R. Oliver Special Collections Room at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and (further afield), from the National Library of\u00a0 Medicine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4967\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/der-mensch-als-industriepalast_a026242.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4967\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/09\/12\/a-poster-to-pittsburgh\/der-mensch-als-industriepalast_a026242\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/der-mensch-als-industriepalast_a026242.png?fit=585%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"585,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Der-Mensch-als-Industriepalast_a026242\" data-image-description=\"<p>Artwork originally appeared in: Das Leben des Menschen \/ von Fritz Kahn. Stuttgart : Frank’schen Verlagshandlung, 1931.<\/p>\n\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Der Mensch als Industriepalast<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #A026242<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/der-mensch-als-industriepalast_a026242.png?fit=146%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/der-mensch-als-industriepalast_a026242.png?fit=499%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-4967 size-large\" title=\"Der Mensch als Industriepalast\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/der-mensch-als-industriepalast_a026242.png?resize=499%2C1024\" alt=\"A crossection of head and torso illustrated with industrial scenes labeled in German.\" width=\"499\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Der Mensch als Industriepalast<\/em> (Man as Industrial Palace)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101439212\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101439212<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The item that Professor Chartier\u2019s\u00a0 class wished to borrow has an interesting history.\u00a0 It is a variant of a poster created by the modernist artist <a title=\"NLM's Dream Anatomy Exhibition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/dreamanatomy\/da_visible_industrial.html\">Fritz Kahn<\/a>. In the 1920\u2019s and 30\u2019s, Kahn published \u201ca succession of books on the inner workings of the human body, using visual metaphors drawn from industrial society\u2014assembly lines, internal combustion engines, refineries, dynamos, telephones, etc\u201d.\u00a0 To Kahn, the human body was \u201can Industrial Palace,\u201d modern and productive, a theme he emphasized through his modernist artwork.\u00a0 Basically, <a title=\"NLM's Dream Anatomy Exhibition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/dreamanatomy\/da_g_IV-A-01.html\">the poster<\/a> is a fanciful representation in cross-section of the human body as though it were a factory, full of pulleys, conveyor belts, and very complicated plumbing.\u00a0 Various offices are labelled <em>luftr\u00f6hre<\/em> (windpipe), <em>leber<\/em> (liver), <em>magen<\/em> (stomach), and <em>darm<\/em> (intestines).\u00a0 It might have been serious and high tech in the 1930\u2019s, but it all looks rather quaint today, and not without an element of humor.\u00a0 Kahn was deeply committed to using his art to demystify the anatomy and physiology of the body.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1970, Sandoz AG, a Swiss company, published a <a title=\"NLM's LocatorPlus Catalog\" href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101439212\">slightly simplified poster<\/a> based on Kahn\u2019s work for promotional purposes. This was the item requested by Prof. Chartier\u2019s class for their exhibit. After an evaluation of its condition, the poster was framed by NLM conservation staff and sent off to Pittsburgh, where it is currently on display in the <em>Configuring Disciplines<\/em> exhibition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4959\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/09\/12\/a-poster-to-pittsburgh\/pitt-blog3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog3.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SD870 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1255257906","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.6","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.0125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Pitt blog3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>The Frick Fine Arts Building, home of the University Art Gallery<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog3.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog3.jpg?fit=840%2C630&ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-4959\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pitt-blog3.jpg?resize=235%2C176\" alt=\"View into an open courtyard from inside a spanish influenced building with columns, tera cotta shingles, and arched windows.\" width=\"235\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Frick Fine Arts Building, home of the University Art Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University Art Gallery is located on the first floor of the Frick Fine Arts Building on Schenley Drive, across from the main branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The University Art Gallery\u2019s regular hours are Monday-Friday, 10 AM\u20134 PM. There will be expanded hours during Pitt\u2019s Family Weekend on: Friday, September 19 from 10 AM\u20136 PM and on Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21 from 11 AM\u20135 PM. The exhibition\u2019s closing weekend will coincide with a Graduate Symposium organized by students from the department of History of Art and Architecture; public hours will be expanded on Saturday, October 4 and Sunday, October 5, 11 AM\u20135 PM. The gallery also opens by appointment. Admission is always free.<\/p>\n<p><em>For general information on the gallery and the exhibition, visit <a title=\"University of Pittsburgh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haa.pitt.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.haa.pitt.edu<\/a>, or contact uag@pitt.edu or call 412-648-2423.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/greenberg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4976\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/09\/12\/a-poster-to-pittsburgh\/greenberg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/greenberg.jpg?fit=160%2C223&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"160,223\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3.5","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D3","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1254916704","copyright":"","focal_length":"105","iso":"320","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Stephen Greenberg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/greenberg.jpg?fit=160%2C223&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/greenberg.jpg?fit=160%2C223&ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4976\" title=\"Stephen Greenberg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/greenberg.jpg?resize=75%2C105\" alt=\"Formal portrait.\" width=\"75\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>Stephen J. Greenberg, PhD, is Coordinator of Public Services for the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen J. 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