Study on the emergence and development of the movement of internationalpicture language(international graphic symbols) after ISOTYPE

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This study tried to give a new and comprehensive picture of the development of international picture language(international graphic symbols), from Isotype began to disseminate internationally in the 1930s u to the movement of standardization of graphic symbols rose in the 1960s. By focusing on the activities of Rudolf Medley who had the experience of working under Otto Neurath in Vienna and later pursued his own direction for making pictorial statistics in the lgsos' USA, and also by comparing his activities and Neurath' s, this study revealed the fact that it was Medley rather than Neurath who significantly contributed to the history of this movement.