Independent Session- Terry Smith Lecture
Via zoom on March 9, 2022, I attended acclaimed contemporary art historian Terry Smith's ninety-minute "Iconomic Wars" talk hosted by MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. It was based on his new book Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images. I concluded that iconomics is the intertwined relationship between a society, an iconographer (image maker), and during a most "relevant" moment said image maker's critical use of a culturally poignant iconographic tool, i.e., stick and pigment, chisel and stone, mirror, lens, camera, iPhone, etc.
