In a recent piece for ArtReview, Brian Dillon discusses Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images by Jérémie Koering. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“The real fascination of Iconophages is in the way in which it retrospectively explodes certain categories in art and art history, including representation itself and the nature of aesthetic experience. If you are kissing, licking or eating images because you think they contain and transmit a saintly virtus or healing power – does that make you a mystic or the basest kind of materialist? An angel is an idea with wings, but a saint is all body, all of the time and everywhere. The terms all dissolve in delirious consumption.”