What is it about?
Article about the formation and career of Jacques Bertin, then of the content of his main treatise, Semiology of Graphics, published in French in 1967 and translated in English in 1986. Why we can consider this book as a seminal work. How it influenced several fields of knowledge, such as cartography, statistics, visual data analysis, information communication.
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Why is it important?
My article gives a global point of view on the importance of Jacques Bertin's work. Bertin exerts a strong influence on nowdays reflection on visual language, if compared with other classical theoreticians in cartography. With the development of visual studies, it appears that re-discovering and re-thinking the work of Bertin is crucial
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Bertin was among my PhD's examinators, and his theoretical work has always inspired me. I tried myself to apply his ideas on graphic language to a historical approach of maps, that is, to study old maps from their sign system (colors, symbols, letters, etc.)
Gilles Palsky
Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
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This page is a summary of: Jacques Bertin, from classical training to systematic thinking of graphic signs, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2018.1523026.
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