Andres Serrano (b. 1950) - The Objects of Desire: Virginian Dragoon .44 Magnum (top),Virginian Dragoon .44 Magnum (8),1992 (middle)andColt D.A. 38 (3),1992 (bottom)
We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
From The Death of the Author (1968) by Roland Barthes (1915-1980)