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	Piss Christ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piss Christ is a controversial photograph by American photographer Andres Serrano.
		On the floor of the United States Senate, Senators Al D'Amato and Jesse Helms expressed outrage that the piece was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, since it is a federal taxpayer-financed institute.
		Piss Christ was included in "Down by Law," a "show within a show" on identity politics and disobedience that formed part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piss_Christ (354 words)

	Piss Christ and the Serrano Controversy - A theological defence
		Piss Christ found itself at the centre of controversy once again in October 1997, when Melbourne was host to two exhibitions of the work of Andres Serrano.
		Piss Christ is not Serrano's more visually striking piece, but it does seem to have generated its own aura out of controversy, and has subsequently become a sort of standard bearer for many of the issues that Serrano's work addresses.
		Piss Christ is indeed blasphemous to extent that it subverts the sacrificial interpretation of Christ's death.
	dlibrary.acu.edu.au /staffhome/dacasey/Serrano.html (4576 words)

	Naked Christs and Balaam's Ass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Displaying the masculinity of Christ was not the only way the artists instructed their audiences—Steinberg also shows paintings where the Christ Child stares out from the painting while nursing on the Madonna’s fully displayed breast, and others which focus on the circumcision of the infant Messiah.
		That is, the submersion of Christ in a jar of urine is offensive to evangelicals at least partly because the humiliation and scandal of the Incarnation is, in practical terms, typically ignored in contemporary evangelical art.
		When Christ humbled himself to become a man, it was an immense act of humiliation; but when the God-man was nailed, naked, to a plank of wood, tortured and killed in the most publicly shameful and excruciatingly painful method in human history, the humiliation is unfathomable.
	www.rutherford.org /oldspeak/blog/articles/religion/oldspeak-christ2.asp (1848 words)

	PlanetPapers - Piss Christ - Paradoxes of Aesthetics
		This notion of "the image itself" is a major misunderstanding of the nature of art: the subject depicted, the means of its creation, the title it is given, the history of its reception, and the circumstances in which it is displayed, are all dimensions of the work and its effect on the viewer (51).
		With Piss Christ, in terms of its public reception, it is the representative element - the title and the description of its creation which subordinate the image.
		The whole effect of Piss Christ is because, powerfully, what you see is not what you expect to get - the external reference of sacredness is entirely undermined by the representative elements of the image, where the effect of blasphemy is felt.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4032.php (2011 words)

	Arizona Daily Wildcat
		Regarding his letter to the editor yesterday, I would like to direct Yuksel Keskin to the 1988 controversy surrounding Andres Serrano's highly publicized photograph "Piss Christ." In his piece, Serrano submerged a Christian crucifix in a glass of urine, and this depiction was displayed as art throughout the U.S. and Europe.
		The "Piss Christ" launched a heated debate in the U.S. Congress, as Serrano's exhibit was funded by public tax dollars through the National Endowment for the Arts.
		While "Piss Christ" was no less offensive to Christians than the recent cartoon depicting Mohammad was to Muslims, the Christian response was stridently different.
	media.wildcat.arizona.edu /media/paper997/news/2006/02/16/Opinions/Mailbag-1616232.shtml?sourcedomain=wildcat.arizona.edu&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (1474 words)

	Andres Serrano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer who has become most notorious through his photos of corpses, as well as his controversial work "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.
		Most famous of these is "Piss Christ" (1987), a photograph of a plastic crucifix in a glass of urine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andres_Serrano (504 words)

	The Waterglass: Where Does the NEA Spend Their Money? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		How much of the NEA budget does the NEA "piss away" money on things like "Piss Christ?" I suspect Piss Christ and its ilk are funded somewhere in the low thousands, like around 15,000 dollars.
		As CNSNews.com reported in 2002, the NEA has generated controversy for years, thanks in large part to taxpayer-funded works such as "Piss Christ," the photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine that received NEA funding in the mid-1990s and was subsequently attacked by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and then-Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.).
		Piss Christ could indeed have been funded under the headings of either Creativity or Access.
	www.thewaterglass.net /archives/000418.html (1149 words)

	Hit and Run
		Comment by: Jaguar Jones at February 23, 2006 10:22 PM forget piss christ, I'm still waiting for NRO, Andrew Sullivan, Bennet et al to demand that newspapers in the west print Irving's holocaust denials, to show their committment to freedom of speech, now under serious threat from the austrians.
		Comment by: Mo at February 24, 2006 12:16 AM "forget piss christ, I'm still waiting for NRO, Andrew Sullivan, Bennet et al to demand that newspapers in the west print Irving's holocaust denials, to show their committment to freedom of speech, now under serious threat from the austrians.
		piss christ was a relatively minor story, and a local one at that.
	www.reason.com /hitandrun/2006/02/just_asking_did.shtml (5305 words)

	[[[[[[[-\| ART CRIME \|-]]]]]]]
		The infamous Andres Serrano work Piss Christ - a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine was attacked in two seperate incidents on the consecutive days of the opening weekend.
		In a move almost as controversial as the work and the attacks themselves, the director of the gallery, Dr Timothy Potts subsequently closed the exhibition in order, he claimed to protect the saftey of the gallery and its staff.
		It is interesting to note that the media reported the second attack as an attack on Piss Christ, while they fail even to mention the title of the other work (depicting a Ku Klux Klan member) that was kicked by the youth.
	www.renewal.org.au /artcrime/pages/serrano.html (587 words)

	Grammar.police
		The fact that, ultimately, Piss Christ is subject to interpretation—that it has a virtual significance qua photograph distinct from the significance of the depicted action—distinguishes it from unmediated acts of violation committed against the Qu'ran.
		Pissing on the Koran is the symbolic equivalent of pissing on the consecrated Eucharist, a far greater transgression in the eyes of Christian believer than snapping a pic of a crucifix in some urine.
		Even if one were to buy the Religious Right's contention that Serrano's photograph is in the same league as the Abu Ghraib abuses (which I don't), it's good to remember that they used Piss Christ as one of their excuses for gutting the NEA and eliminating funding for individual artists.
	grammarpolice.net /archives/000707.php (1228 words)

	Peaktalk - DANISH BOYCOTT, CHRIST AND FREEDOM
		Yes, I instantly remembered "Piss Christ" and when I did some research I was surprised that it was almost twenty years ago that it happened.
		And it was a double controversy, the left fighting for freedom of expression while the right was furious over the fact that a piece of blasphemy had been funded by the American taxpayer.
		It is very hard to argue that the Jyllands-Posten's cartoons were offensive, but a case could be made that Serrano's "Piss Christ" was testing the limits of that somewhat arbitrary 'taste measure'.
	www.peaktalk.com /archives/001925.php (359 words)

	The PISS CHRIST controversy@Arts & Opinion
		In Peter, again, Christ is said to be a sacrifice ‘without blemish,' that is, without the moral blemish of sin, not the physical blemishes which disqualified sacrifices; and we ourselves are said to be ‘sprinkled; with his blood (1:2,19).
		Similarly, in John we are said to be ‘cleansed' by his blood ‘from sin' (1:7,9), the language of sprinkling and cleansing being drawn from the sacrificial ritual, and perhaps from the Covenant sacrifice of Exodus 24, also alluded to at the Last Supper.
		Closely related to Casey's untenable contrast between sacrifice and abjection is another contrast, between a (true) kenotic Christ stripped of all power and a (false) concept of Christ as a divine master.
	www.artsandopinion.com /2004_v3_n4/pisschrist-2.htm (3132 words)

	Piss Christ, Piss Take - GORSKYS.COMedy
		Piss Head - a photo of a human head immersed in a bucket of urine
		Piss Piss - depicting a bucket of urine immersed in a bucket of urine
		Piss Christ - Andre Serrano's controversial photo depicting a crucifix immersed in a bucket of urine
	www.gorskys.com.au /articles/piss-take.html (275 words)

	Barbie VS. Piss Christ: Battle of the Icons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Boo- boo has unwittingly (or half - wittingly) pointed out a connection between Andre Serrano's Piss Christ and my BKPC (Barbie & Ken Politically Correct) I feel a deeper analysis is in order.
		Serrano has publicly stated that he is a devout Christian and was simply trying to illustrate the suffering and degradation of the passion of Christ.
		Piss Christ was immediately attacked by people with hammers and ripped from the wall etc..
	old.thing.net /wwwboard1/messages/534.html (1291 words)

	Andre Serrano
		The subject matter of his photography—including aborted foetuses, the Ku Klux Klan and post-autopsy corpses—has continually provoked outrage, particularly among America's Christian Right, and even led one 'critic' to attack his work with a hammer during a retrospective exhibition in Melbourne.
		Their themes of religious iconography and the human body came together in the most striking way with his Fluid Abstractions series (1987-1990), including the Piss Christ photograph of a plastic crucifix dipped in a beaker of the artist's urine."
		This page draws on "Piss Art: Images of Urination in 20th Century Art," by Christopher Chapman.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~aoki/Teaching/objet_a/urine/Serrano/Serrano.htm (216 words)

	Steve Collins: Small Fire: How far is too far?
		Christ persistently crossed the bounds between "clean" and "unclean" in order to be with those in need.
		But it is "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano –; a photograph of a crucifix suspended in the artist's urine mixed with cow's blood.
		Christ became filth for us, became our filth so that we might become clean.
	www.ship-of-fools.com /Columns/Collins/Collins0202.html (867 words)

	From the Rachel
		An excellent domestic parallel is the fracas that followed the 1989 publication of "Piss Christ," a photograph of Christ on a crucifix submerged in a jar of urine.
		The question is whether Piss Christ really is a bad-boy stunt intended solely to shock and offend, based on the adolescent presumption that the only good art is offensive.
		So, dragging Piss Christ into the debate over the Danish Mohammed cartoons, as a putative example of how itâs OK to bash Christian symbols in the liberal West, ignores the evidence of aesthetics, meaning, and intent, that it is legitimate art.
	fromtherachel.blogspot.com (3636 words)

	xx/australia/4
		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.
		Both the name and the image "Piss Christ" not only demean Christianity but also represent a grossly offensive, scurrilous and insulting treatment of Christianity's most sacred and holy symbol.
		In the first, over 90 percent of a near-record number of phone-in calls supported the removal of the "Piss Christ" picture from the exhibition; in the second, 86 percent endorsed the closing of the exhibition.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Igpress/CWR/CWR1297/Australia.html (1873 words)

	Before Serrano - Painting of Christ on the cross with reference to the Piss Christ
		This painting represents Christ on the cross engulfed in an inferno, perhaps at the ninth hour when Matthew records the moment when Christ fears he has been abandoned by God.
		Emadi's title for the work, "Before Serrano", is a reference to controversial photographer Andres Serrano who became notorious for his 1987 exhibition of his controversial piece "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist's own urine.
		Perhaps he is drawing a comparison to the division of the Christian calendar into "Before Christ" and "After Christ" in that this signifies the end of one era and the beginning of another.
	www.arikiart.com /max-emadi/heroworship/crucifiedchristbeforeandresserrano.htm (350 words)

	Hit and Run
		Comment by: sage at May 20, 2005 06:11 PM Well, piss christ was a problem because this guy was financed by taxpayers through the NEA.
		Comment by: Stevo Darkly at May 20, 2005 07:32 PM Well, piss christ was a problem because this guy was financed by taxpayers through the NEA.
		Comment by: Douglas Fletcher at May 21, 2005 03:13 AM I think that, if "Piss Christ" had instead been named "Christ In Amber", it'd be a hot seller in Christian bookstores.
	www.reason.com /hitandrun/2005/05/crystal_korano.shtml (2598 words)

	Serrano's Challenge: What Christians Can Learn From "Piss Christ"
		In 1989, the exhibition of "Piss Christ," a nuanced and richly hued photograph described succinctly by conservatives as "a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine," caused an uproar.
		Piper fails to mention the evangelical response -- in America and abroad -- to "Piss Christ," a reaction that was far from humble, loving, or winsome.
		Perhaps in our hurry to be "afflicted" and "insulted," we Christians thoughtlessly assumed that "piss" and "Christ" could not be juxtaposed in a meaningful or reverential fashion.
	elissa.chattablogs.com /archives/033030.html (1200 words)

	: Does Blasphemy Exist?
		Dr Pell claimed that Piss Christ was so offensive, scurrilous and insulting to the Christian religion that it was beyond a legitimate difference of opinion.
		In the more recent authoritative case in England the publication of a poem, describing sexual acts performed on Christ after his death and suggesting that Christ was a promiscuous homosexual, was held to be blasphemous libel.
		Justice Harper discussed but did not decide whether Piss Christ was indecent or obscene, that is, whether it offends current community standards of propriety.
	www.artslaw.com.au /Publications/Articles/97Blasphemy.asp (1736 words)

	Gates of Vienna: Auctioning Images: "Piss Christ" vs. Mohammed in Drag
		Peaktalk is comparing this latest Islamic hysteria over the Danish cartoons with the fiercely defensive position American liberals took when “Piss Christ” appeared on the horizon.
		The notorious "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano (b.
		I posted an entry on Piss Christ on my blog a few days ago that generated a lot of discussion you might enjoy.
	gatesofvienna.blogspot.com /2006/02/auctioning-images-piss-christ-vs.html (704 words)

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