“…the vernacular of beauty, in its democratic appeal, remains a potent instrument for change in this civilization. Mappelthorpe uses it, as does Warhol, as does Ruscha, to engage individuals within and without the cultural ghetto in arguments about what is good and what is beautiful. And they do it without benefit of clergy, out in the street, out on the margin, where we might, if we are lucky, confront that information man with his reminder that we have not used the word praise for eighteen days, three hours, and nineteen minutes.”1
1. Hickey, Dave. "Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty". Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics. Ed. Bill Beckley. New York: Allworth Press, 1998. 15-24.