The Fall 1986 issue of The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art’s Journal is a collection of works that seek to draw parallels between the treatment of text and image in Medieval illuminated manuscripts and the technological images of the late 20th century and beyond. The difference between the two, Elaine Equi states in her prefatory note, is “in the way they attain their luminosity. One by grace, the other via electronics.” What follows are what Equi calls “Discarded Icons,” the attempts of over a dozen artists at “a larger visionary language” that is both visual and literary. Drawings, photocollage, appropriation, and staged photography are wedded to poetry, prose, experimental drama, and personal narrative, often blurring form and genre to innovative and exciting ends.