Louis Menand
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How âPiss Christâ Became a Culture-War Bomb (opens the original)
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âPiss Christâ is a photograph of a crucifix immersed in a container of urine. Why would anyone make such a thing? The customary answer is that itâs social criticismâa commentary on the cheapening of the Christian faithâor a prank, like Marcel Duchampâs urinal, meant to shock and subvert. But Andres Serrano, the man who made âPiss Christ,â seems to have had none of this in mind. He was doing what Jackson Pollock did when he threw paint on a canvas on the floor, or what Andy Warhol
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