Research Catalog

Title

From cave painting to comic strip : a kaleidoscope of human communication / by Lancelot Hogben ; with 20 pages in full color and 211 illustrations in black and white, selected by Marie Neurath.

Author

Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975

Publication

New York : Chanticleer Press, 1949.

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Details

Additional Authors

Neurath, Marie

Description

286 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 23 cm

Summary

This book is a panorama of the emergence of man as the only literate animal species and a preview to the liquidation of illiteracy on a wor1d scale as a prelude to the unification of mankind. So our story starts with what Julian Huxley happily calls the uniqueness of man. Wherein lies this uniqueness? With-wisdom way beyond much of what passes as modern though, the most notable of the Founding Fathers defined man as a tool-making animal; and Franklin's aphorism does in fact epitomise in simple factual terms one, if only one, characteristic of the uniqueness of our species. Others are equally susceptible to plain statement. Man is the only talkative animal, and man as we know him today is the only picture-making animal.'

Subjects

• Communication
• Symbolism in communication
• Comic books, strips, etc > Themes, motives

Note

• Includes index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

I. Sex, seals and signatures -- II. The coming of the calendar -- III. The arrival of the alphabet -- IV. Much ado about nothing -- V. Printing, paper and playing cards -- VI. Standardisation, stereotype and isotype -- VII. Art, anatomy and advertisement -- VIII. Back to Comenius from the comics -- IX. Serving time, saving time and showing time -- X. The internationalisation of free speech.

LCCN

49048679

OCLC

• ocm01010960
• 1010960
• SCSB-2387536

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries