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Fritz Kahn’s Man As Industrial Palace.

Fritz Kahn’s Man As Industrial Palace.

Kahn’s modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system as “industrial palace,” really a chemical plant, was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s most advanced.

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