Revue Faire 53: Graphic Designers as Iconographers

What happens when contemporary graphic designers reclaim an iconographic tradition that artists themselves once borrowed from design? Tracing a lineage from the painter who drew from life, to the artist who reinterpreted images and texts, to the curator-artist who assembled ready-mades, this essay explores the shifting authorship of images across centuries. In a world saturated with visual references, Chancogne asks: Who, today, holds the torch of iconography - the artist, the designer, or both? 80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English