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GAYVM OFFERS 6 RARE PRTS FROM INFLUENTIAL ARTIST 'REX'
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Rex, also lled REX, is the psdonym of a livg Amerin artist and illtrator closely associated wh homosexual fetish art of 1970s and 1980s New York and San Francis. His drawgs fluenced gay culture through graphics ma for famo nightclubs cludg the Mhaft and his fluence on artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe.
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