Before the Antelope: Robert Pagès on Documents

In 1951 Suzanne Briet wrote, with minimal explanation, that an antelope could become a document. In 1948 Robert Pagès (1919-2007) published an explanation of the same and related ideas. Textual and other graphic documents are about something, hence descriptive and derived. Animals and other objects...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Buckland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Akron Press 2017-12-01
Series:Proceedings from the Document Academy
Online Access:https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol4/iss2/6