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  • Chapter 7 - Visual Education

  • Christopher Burke, University of Reading, Adam Tamas Tuboly, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities
  • Book:
    Otto Neurath in Britain
    Published online:
    09 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 179-207

  • Summary

    Neurath’s interest in international languages led to him developing an alternative to verbal language, the pictorial technique of Isotype. This chapter documents significant wartime projects using this method, including animated sections for documentary films and charts for publications produced by pioneering ‘book packager’ Adprint. The Isotype Institute contributed to the book on Lancelot Hogben’s own invented language Interglossa. Neurath also explored the establishment of a research centre for visual education in consultation with Hogben, Julian Huxley, and US ambassador J. G. Winant. His last book project titled ‘Visual Education’ was written for Karl Mannheim’s ‘International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction’, although it remained unpublished until long after his death. It was a wide-ranging reflection on the acquisition of knowledge and its social determinacy.