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	Andres Serrano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer who has become most notorious for his controversial piece "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist's own urine.
		Serrano is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background and was raised a strict Roman Catholic.
		Serrano's work as a photographer tends toward relatively large prints of about 20 by 30 inches (0.5 by 0.8 m), which are produced by conventional photographic techniques (as opposed to digital manipulation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andres_Serrano (497 words)

	Artmosphere
		Andres Serrano became subject to notoriety in 1998 as a result of a cultural and political scandal when his work “Piss Christ” of 1987 caused a heated debate in the USA about the freedom of art and its state financing.
		Serrano´s colour photograph of a Christ figure submerged in a glass of urine struck conservatives as blasphemy.
		Serrano represents members of the Ku Klux Klan or monks and nuns like icons in their habits in front of a monochrome background.
	www.artmosphere.at /artists.php?kid=9 (404 words)

	Andres Serrano - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This large Cibachrome is essentially abstract and stark; the single mark of Serrano's ejaculate streaks in a whitish-violet arc with gold highlights across a fl background.
		Serrano developed an early interest in art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and began to study painting at the Brooklyn Museum School at the age of seventeen.
		In 1992, Serrano investigated the issues of death and violence in a series of photographs taken in a morgue.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/serrano_andres.html (695 words)

	Andres Serano
		One might expect that the home of an artist of Serrano’s caliber would be a refuge from the otherwise surreal and penetrating images that find their way onto film and into galleries and museums throughout the world.
		Serrano himself settles into interview mode, cautious and guarded, perhaps a reaction to years of media attention of his challenging and iconoclastic work that has been both hailed as visionary and derided as blasphemous.
		Serrano continues to use figures in his photography that jar the senses, and although many critics have misinterpreted his work as perverse and misguided, the furor has only helped to elevate his reputation as one of our most important and lauded contemporary artists.
	www.photoinsider.com /pages/serrano/seranno.html (1614 words)

	Art Critic London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andres Serrano claims that his immaculately shot photographs of mutilated bodies and explicit sex scenes explore the unexplorable.
		Serrano began to achieve notoriety in the late 1980s for his immaculately composed, beautifully photographed images of subjects so shocking that they can be almost impossible to look at.
		Serrano coldly detaches himself from the human tragedies behind these deaths, turning mutilated cadavers into objects of aesthetic contemplation, seeming cynically to exploit those who can no longer defend their own dignity.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /artcritic/level1/reviewarchive/2001/oct_10_01_main.html (1028 words)

	Andres Serrano: America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andres Serrano: America 1070990770 1071010800 New York USA Anthony Allen anthony@paulacoopergallery.com 1070990770.jpg 1074380399 o Paula Cooper Gallery Andres Serrano: America The Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Andres Serrano.
		Andres Serrano was born in New York in 1950.
		Andres Serrano's art has investigated the nature of contemporary spirituality in many provocative ways, from images of religious icons bathed in bodily fluids to portraits of clergy and church interiors, to the Morgue (1992) a chilling series of images of corpses taken in a city morgue.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/1071010800.1070990770.html (523 words)

	Shooting the Klan: An Interview with Andres Serrano
		Andres Serrano was an apparently unwilling soldier in the Culture Wars of the early '90s.
		Andres Serrano photographing a Klanswoman in Georgia, cibachrome, 1990.
		In November, 1990, Serrano opened a new chapter of his career with an arresting exhibition of 20 cibachrome portraits, 13 of homeless people in New York entitled Nomads, most of whom are African-American, and seven members of the Atlanta, Georgia, chapter of the Ku Klux Klan entitled Klansman.
	www.communityarts.net /readingroom/archivefiles/2002/09/shooting_the_kl.php (3676 words)

	Controversial photographer Serrano will lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Serrano is the photographer who touched off a firestorm of controversy with Piss Christ (1988), a large color photograph depicting a small plastic crucifix submerged in the artist's urine.
		Serrano's Piss Christ raised the ire of numerous religious and secular groups, including the American Family Association, and brought condemnation from U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.
		Serrano had received in 1988 a $15,000 grant from Awards in the Visual Arts, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/11.21.96/Serrano.html (324 words)

	PopPolitics.com - Holy Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1989, artist Andres Serrano became an enemy of Christian leaders and political conservatives for his photograph "Piss Christ." The photograph -- a murky but glowing capture of a crucifix in a jar of Serrano's urine -- started a so-called "Culture War."
		Despite Serrano's reputation and the currently hostile atmosphere in New York against artists who dare to present controversial religious representations, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan is displaying two series by Serrano through the Lenten season.
		Here is a thorough overview of Andres Serrano and his work through the late 1980s.
	www.poppolitics.com /articles/2001-04-04-serrano.shtml (1726 words)

	Disputed artist explains works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andres Serrano of Piss Christ fame evoked laughter and sounds of disgust from a packed house in Schwab Auditorium last night.
		Andres Serrano, the photographer famous for his controversial "Piss Christ," speaks to students at the bar Whiskers at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave.
		Serrano said he hoped to reclaim the humanity of certain subjects by photographing the homeless, Ku Klux Klan members and victims found in a morgue.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1996_jan-dec/1996_oct/1996-10-02_the_daily_collegian/1996-10-02d01-001.htm (587 words)

	Andres Serrano
		Andres Serrano, exhibition catalogue/hand-out from the Fundacion Proa, 1997, illus.
		Andres Serrano exhibition catalogue from Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, with essays from Nada Beros and Tihomir Milovac, 1996, illus.
		Andres Serrano, exhibition catalogue from the exhibition at Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia, 1994.
	www.andresserrano.org /Bibliography.htm (9391 words)

	ROBERT ATKINS.NET
		Serrano's picture is a 60-by-40-inch cibachrome of a crucifix seen through a swirling haze of bubbly yellow liquid-the artist's own urine.
		In its official response to the Serrano flap, NEA's acting chairman Hugh Southern notes that "the Endowment is expressly forbidden in its authorizing legislation from interfering with the artistic choices made by its grantees." Representative William Dannemeyer (Republican, California) is ready to rewrite that legislation.
		Serrano aptly characterized the attacks on his work as "First Amendment double-talk." He wondered how you can "defend my right to make this art, but say that no individual or institution that receives government funds should be allowed to support it...You can't denounce censorship in one breath and demand it in the next."
	www.robertatkins.net /beta/witness/culture/nea/serrano.html (1215 words)

	Andres Serrano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andres Serrano 981035235 981068400 Helsinki Finlandia Helsinski City Art Museum http://www.hel.fi/artmuseum/ ampcom@kaapeli.fi 988581599 o Helsinski City Art Museum Andres Serrano The Helsinki City Art Museum will open a retrospective exhibition of the works of Andres Serrano (born 1950), a US photographer of Cuban-Honduran origin, at the Tennis Palace.
		In the 1980s and 1990s, very few photographers caused as much dispute as Serrano, and his photographic comments on racism, freedom of speech and the limits of artistic freedom have caused strong reactions everywhere.
		The retrospective at the Tennis Palace covers Serrano's work in the 1980s and 1990s, including early abstract compositions using urine, blood, semen and milk, and religious symbols depicted in these fluids (including Piss Christ, well-known for the uproar it caused in the United States).
	www.undo.net /artinpress/981068400.981035235.html (393 words)

	eyestorm - Andres Serrano - biography
		From the beginning Serrano thought of himself as an artist using photography, and not as a photographer per se, the distinction being that he was not interested in documenting 'reality', but in creating his own.
		Subsequently, Serrano decided to use blood not just as content, but as form, resulting in images that were more reductive and abstract than his earlier works.
		The first of these was 'Nomads', 1990, a series of pictures of homeless individuals whom Serrano found on the streets and, in several cases, photographed inside his studio.
	www.eyestorm.com /artist/Andres_Serrano_biography.aspx (1156 words)

	Product Details
		three years of work produced over one hundred 50-by-60-inch photographic portraits representing the cultural diversity of this immigrant country, as filtered through the critical lens of serrano.
		the second half of this big volume, other work, is a retrospective of serrano's previous photographic series.
		in 1989 us senator jesse helms accused andres serrano of taunting the american people.
	www.unicahome.com /catalog/item.asp?id=16409 (240 words)

	ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
		With his deeply beautiful photographs Andres Serrano has challenged the fundamental taboos of the western world.
		Serrano has deliberately omitted the environment that we usually associate with the Ku Klux Klan: there are no burning crosses, agitated crowds or attacks on innocent minorities.
		In the 1980s at the height of the AIDS debate Serrano created a number of his most praised works: almost abstract presentations of flows of blood and semen on completely uniform backgrounds, accentuating the formal, aesthetic characteristics.
	www.arken.dk /view.asp?ID=11913 (247 words)

	Andres Serrano (1950 - )
		Serrano, alongside other artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, became a figure who some attacked for producing offensive art while others defended in the name of artistic freedom (see the American "culture wars" of the 1990s).
		Andres Serrano caused a scandal in USA in 1987 when he showed ‘Piss Christ’.
		Devoting individual sections to each artist with twenty photos documenting their works, this book is more in-depth than a normal exhibition catalogue, and has a jazzy, pop appeal that will attract both fashion and art fans.
	www.jahsonic.com /AndresSerrano.html (631 words)

	press release :: Young Willing + Hungry : Curated by Andres Serrano
		This exhibit is Serrano's first curatorial venture, and in keeping with his own approach to his craft, he has chosen three provocative artists: Blake Boyd, Karalla and Irina Movmyga.
		Serrano describes Blake Boyd as "one of Andy Warhol's spiritual sons." In his series of photo booth pictures, Blake explores a deadpan approach to serial portraiture much like his hero Warhol.
		For Serrano, the unifying theme of these artists is "their desire to fight the status quo, superseded only by their need to protect their individuality.
	www.jenbekman.com /press_serrano.html (522 words)

	Controversial artist Serrano shows religious photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Serrano evokes an eerie quality to his work with the eyes peering through the hoods.
		Serrano takes the viewer into the morgue and shows him photographs of different means of death.
		His most compelling morgue photos, however, are his "Knifed to Death I, II." Serrano focuses on specific body parts in the morgue photos, and his "Knifed to Death" centers on the wrists and hands of the victim.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol61/951012/8a.html (802 words)

	Comments on A. Serrano (U.S. Senate)
		Southern: We recently learned of the Endowment's support for a so-called "work of art" by Andres Serrano entitled "Piss Christ." We write to express out outrage and to suggest in the strongest terms that the procedures used by the Endowment to award and support artists be reformed.
		Serrano's selection, this photograph and some of his other works were exhibited in several cities around the country with the approval and the support of the National Endowment.
		Serrano's work "Piss Christ" is available on-line by clicking here.
	www.csulb.edu /~jvancamp/361_r7.html (2039 words)

	The PISS CHRIST controversy@Arts & Opinion
		One suspects Serrano is laughing up his sleeve at the ease with which such ‘post-modern' thinking can be grafted on to the support of his iconoclasm.
		Whether this revisionism was entirely candid on Serrano's part might be doubted, but, as some of the artist's defenders observed, Jesus very likely did lose control of his bladder in the crucifixion and was probably ‘pissed on' by the Roman soldiers.
		Serrano's intention in producing this photograph and the National Gallery's intention in displaying it remain unclear, but in the eyes of the law is does not matter whether their intention was to shock, to revere or simply to display some nice colors.
	www.artsandopinion.com /2004_v3_n4/pisschrist-2.htm (3132 words)

	The Lawrenceville School
		Serrano focused his lecture on his current project, America, a series of portraits of the melting-pot nation.
		Serrano is known for seeking out challenging subjects.
		Serrano relishes the political contrasts, stating "I can't see why I can't work with someone I'm not supposed to.
	www.lawrenceville.org /on_campus/news/detail.asp?back=archive&id=109A (368 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Andres Serrano, The Curve, Barbican
		For a while, when he was drowning crosses and religious knick-knacks of the suffering Christ in wee-wee and milk, it appeared that he was trying to say something about the the shiftiness of symbols, the transubstantiations of the mass and of photography, making some kind of link between the altar and the darkroom.
		Serrano was let into the morgue, to make his photos of the stillborn, barbecued burn victims, Jane Doe shot by the cops, Aids deaths and suicides.
		Andres Serrano: Placing Time and Evil is at The Curve, Barbican (020-7638 8891), London EC2 until December 23.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/feature/0,1169,728550,00.html (698 words)

	Catholic World News : The Serrano Affair
		As for Serrano's being internationally recognized, he was a fringe dweller of a 1980s New York school, with strongly homosexual ambiance, of shock-schlock photographers, the most famous of whom is Robert Mapplethorpe.
		However, with the announcement of the forthcoming Serrano exhibition--an in particular the presence of the "Piss Christ"--many of Victoria's Christians concluded that "enough was enough," and that the bottom line had finally been breached in terms of a crude, blatant disregard for Christian sensitivities.
		In answer to a question about Archbishop Pell's handling of the Serrano affair, the American cardinal was emphatic in saying that he completely supported Archbishop Pell's stand, calling it "a prudent and sensitive approach," and saying that he would have adopted the same strategy in a similar situation.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=20940 (1822 words)

	New Museum: Andres Serrano
		"Andres Serrano: Works 1983-1993, the first midcareer survey of the artist's work, allows viewers to move beyond this media stereotype and to assess the depth of Serrano's critical engagement with a range of challenging subjects.
		These series have taken as their focuses ecclesiastic and mythological iconography, bodily emanations (urine, blood, semen), dead bodies (fragmented "portraits" shot in a morgue), and guns (the Objects of Desire series), themes that converge on a blunt evocation of death and afterlife, the body and its dismemberment.
		His continued focus on rituals of violence, spiritual life, and the body has led critics to cast Serrano as a kind of purveyor of abjection and blasphemy, a reading that has been framed through the lens of the late 1980s censorship debate and its dichotomies of sacred and profane, totem and taboo, reverence and repulsion."
	www.newmuseum.org /more_exh_a_serrano.php (241 words)

	We Have Grown Used to Beauty Without Horror § Unqualified Offerings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The outraged narrative holds that “Andres Serrano sunk a crucifix in urine.”; The problem is how incomplete a description this is. Look.
		More: Andres Serrano submerged a crucifix in urine and photographed it up close and sidelit so that, absent both title and gloss, you couldn’t tell that that is what he had done precisely.
		Despite Serrano’s talent as an image-maker, despite the valid questions the piece may raise, despite the fact that he made very deliberate choices while making it–it is still a piece of conceptual shock art.
	www.highclearing.com /index.php/archives/2005/06/09/4320 (2816 words)

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