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Body Building: An Illustrated Lecture with David Macaulay

Los Angeles Public Library





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Partner:: Los Angeles Public Library
Location:: Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles, CA
Event Date:: 10.16.08
Speaker:: David Macaulay
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Summary: Beginning with the cell, the MacArthur Award-winning artist and author of The Way Things Work, takes us on a stunning visual journey through the major systems of the body.

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David Macaulay

David Macaulay is a visual storyteller whose illustrated books demystify the workings and origins of objects as mundane as a stapler and as monumental as a cathedral. While he modestly classifies himself an "explainer," Macaulay's elegant drawings, wry humor, and clear descriptions of the simplest and most complex structures and machines are sophisticated and entertaining educational experiences for both children and adults. His profound curiosity has led him to deconstruct human creations to the simple and understandable, as exemplified by his architectural series of books, Cathedral, Pyramid, Castle, and Mosque. In The Way Things Work (1988), a seminal book in the field of illustrated-educational books, he not only shows the reader how things are made, but conveys complex technical information as to how and why they function. While best known for his books on architecture and engineering, Macaulay is also a gifted author of picture books. In his award-winning Black and White (1990), he abandoned linear storytelling to produce a book that challenges young readers to piece together four interconnected plots that unfold through illustrations in separate quadrants of each two-page spread. He is currently engaged in intensive study for his next book, an exploration of the complexities of the human body. David Macaulay was born in Burton-on-Trent, England in 1946 and received a B.Arch. (1969) from the Rhode Island School of Design. A freelance writer and illustrator for the majority of his career, he has also worked as an interior designer (1969-72), as a high school art teacher (1969-70, 1972-74), and as an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he continues to teach as an an adjunct member of the Department of Illustration. His work has been featured in a PBS mini-series as well as in museum exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.

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01 hr 09 min 09 sec

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01.: Los Angeles Public Library Introduction

01 min 46 sec

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02.: Macaulay Opening: Why Do a Book About the Body?

03 min 36 sec

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03.: Skeletal Collection / How to Present Skeletal System

02 min 54 sec

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04.: Early Sketches of the Digestive System

01 min 14 sec

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05.: An Amusement Park Presentation

02 min 13 sec

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06.: Drawing Body From Memory

03 min 08 sec

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07.: Mechanics of the Heart / Eye

02 min 50 sec

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08.: Construction of the Mouth

01 min 44 sec

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09.: A Stomach Made of Steel

00 min 53 sec

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10.: Moving Onto Joints

02 min 05 sec

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11.: Muscular and Skeletal Systems

02 min 56 sec

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12.: Adding Text to the Book

02 min 42 sec

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13.: Drawing Process

03 min 13 sec

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14.: Cells - Protein Synthesis

02 min 20 sec

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15.: Building DNA

02 min 09 sec

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16.: Cell Division

03 min 53 sec

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17.: The Digestive System

01 min 57 sec

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18.: Traveling Through the Stomach

02 min 16 sec

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19.: Maximizing the Potential of the Small Intestine

03 min 01 sec

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20.: Waste Systems

04 min 22 sec

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21.: Who's in Charge?: The Nervous System

02 min 37 sec

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22.: How Pain Operates

01 min 19 sec

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23.: Building Bone

01 min 05 sec

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24.: The Beginning of Life

01 min 50 sec

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25.: Q & A

00 min 18 sec

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26.: Q1: Beginning of Cellular Life

04 min 05 sec

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27.: Q2: Surprises

03 min 49 sec

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28.: Q3: Body Works Exhibits

02 min 43 sec

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David Macaulay Presents the Body as a Factory

03 min 30 sec

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A Personified Journey Through the Digestive System

04 min 35 sec

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The Illustration Process of David Macaulay

02 min 11 sec

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Posted: 10.17.09, 04:10 AM

His drawings are truly amazing. His use of perception and imagination, brilliant. Id like to purchase this book and learn the many functions and capabilities of my own body.

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