Iconophilia is written by Nigel Lendon. I’m an artist, art historian and curator with an interest in the fields of minimalist and conceptual art. I have a particular interest in the relation between tradition and innovation in the nexus between cross-cultural art, outsider art, and the avant-garde. I’m currently working on the war art of Afghanistan.
Mostly this blog reflects on contemporary visual culture, and the boundaries of art. I respond to things I find compelling, or images worth thinking about, or opinions worthy of a response. Occasionally I stray into reflections on our surroundings, and the natural world, and sometimes I assign the status of iconicity to unlikely objects and images.
If you’ve read this far, you might also be interested in the sidebar category READING, LOOKING where you will find a whole bunch of posts and links I think you might be interested in, but which don’t appear on the front page. It’s an open project, and I welcome readers’ submissions and links to images and stories you think may fit iconophilia’s evolving sensibility.
The plan is for iconophilia to be a Friday blog, ready for your weekend reading, unless I find breaking news that’s too hot to wait for the next Friday! Or if corrections are required…
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