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The visual document

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Helene E. Roberts
Helene E. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Fine Arts Library, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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Abstract

In addition to merely substituting for ‘original’ images and artefacts, reproductions and photographs constitute evidence of the history of, and of attitudes towards, works of art, and of the technical means of documenting their appearance. However, the visual document may have intrinsic value and aesthetic worth, giving it a life, a power of influence, and a depth of association, entirely its own.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 5 - 8
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1988

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