powerful indication of the rage he felt at how much more attention society gave to killing men rather than loving them. His works suggest many layers of meaning, with implications of the loss of belief in myth, religion and history. People who do not look deeper into his collages can not understand his complex expression of real-world issues (339). Instead they take a symbol out of context and get a unclear understanding of the artworks rendering them indistinguishable from pornography(345). By labeling his art pornographic, it becomes a target for censorship. Because Wojnarowiczs artworks give a supporting voice to the members of minorities, it is no shock that his art strikes fears in individuals that believe they are the moral center of society. His art is censored because of the individuals fear of taboo subjects that are not in the mainstream: issues of homophobia and discrimination against people with AIDS. The official censorship of his art came in charges by censorship committees against the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) accusing them of spending hard-earned tax dollars to fund Wojnarowiczs pornographic and blasphemous art (335). This pressure on the NEA caused them to drop funding for Wojnarowiczs exhibits, affecting his ability to use his artist expression by limited its exposure to the public.Robert Mapplethorpe is also a contemporary American artist who used his artwork to push sexual frontiers by using his life as an active member of the gay community in the 1970s and early 1980s, to inspire his works (366). His art reflected his life as a gay minority before the concept of an AIDS crisis. He challenged people to think about taboo issues of race and sex through photographs of nudes, still lives, and celebrity portraits (367). His more well known works are The Perfect Moment catalogue and his X, Y, and Z portfolios portraying sadomasochistic homosexual behavior and the sexuality of black men. Mapplethorpe...
