“The gay culture’s new visibility has exposed a subculture developing its own myths, cultural heroes, stereotypes and sign language (semiotic). Long before the current women’s journals began picturing naked men as sex objects, gay magazines were exploring

(tags: culture semiotics identity visualCulture sexuality gender homosexuality)

…unlike some Pop painters, Ruscha seldom seemed to be making art about other art. Ruscha used unconventional materials in his graphic work of the late 1960s and 1970s: he drew with gunpowder and painted and printed with foodstuffs and with a variety of

(tags: artists photographers painting)