Word: crucifix
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...stage props added hints of modern style and design, giving the settings and actors an appropriately "artsy" look. The unusual crucifix used at the Duchess' excommunication was assembled from a combination of wood poles and mannequin parts. It added creative imagery to what would have otherwise been a rather orthodox scene...
...pieces (e.g. Mapplethorpe's and Serrano's photos and Annie Sprinkle's strip-shows). Here, the work not only depicts the idea of an event but is dependent on the actual occurrence of that event. The judge is not only deciding to promote the idea of urinating on a crucifix, but also to fund someone who actually did it. The artist and his or her work are morally implicated in the subject matter itself, further illustrating the impossibility of separating art from values...
...style is the antithesis of Gaudi's ornamented surrealism. "My work has nothing to do with Gaudi's," says the sculptor, 63. Although Gaudi left a 1911 sketch of the Passion facade, Subirachs changed the arrangement of the sculptures and added controversial touches like a macabre skull below the crucifix. He gave his Roman centurions helmets playfully copied from Gaudi-designed chimney pots on a nearby building. Subirachs denounces his critics as "hooligans, snobs." Ironically, Subirachs in 1965 signed a letter protesting the basilica's continuation. But when offered the sculptural commission, he changed his mind "because I was given...
...Fujimori is a practicing Catholic and his opponent was an agnostic, anti-Catholic tracts prompted Lima Archbishop Augusto Vargas Alzamora to charge that Evangelicals "do not answer to the Christian tradition," and were waging an "insidious campaign." Peru's bishops organized a special pre-election procession of a venerated crucifix, usually reserved for times of calamity. The country's Catholics fear that Protestant inroads will jeopardize their church's favored position in taxation and religious instruction in schools...
...There has certainly been a growth of them occurring on campus," says David R. Gammons '92, who has adorned his self-described "button nose" with a tiny crucifix. "It can be a real phenomenon...