Word: serrano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helms launched the furor this summer, when hedeclared the NEA-funded exhibits of photographersRobert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano offensiveand sacrilegeous. In particular, Helms and othercritics blasted the homoerotic content of some ofMapplethorpe's work and a Serrano picture of acrucifix submerged in urine...
Last year NEA money totaling $45,000 was used by the Corcoran museum for an exhibition by the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and by an institution that gave an award to the artist Andres Serrano. One of Serrano's pieces was a photo of a plastic crucifix immersed in the artist's urine -- a fairly conventional piece of postsurrealist blasphemy, which, though likely to have less effect on established religion than a horsefly on a tank, was bound to irk some people. Mapplethorpe's show was to contain some icy, polished and (to most straights and, one surmises, at least...
...sadomasochistic ones or those verging on kiddie porn -- if the show had gone on. But she had in mind, as well, the hope of future grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is under criticism for the Mapplethorpe show and for another show that contained Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, the photograph of a crucifix in what the title says is urine. Owr-Chall is said to be yielding to censorship, when she is clearly yielding to political and financial pressure, as Pepsi yielded to commercial pressure over the Madonna...
...Cahall was talking about are mostly on Capitol Hill, and they oversee the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, which partly subsidized the Mapplethorpe show with a $30,000 grant. The NEA was already enmeshed in controversy over an earlier grant of $15,000 to photographer Andres Serrano, among whose works is a picture titled Piss Christ, depicting a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine. Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in March, produced equally provocative work: his oeuvre includes pictures of nude children in erotic poses, a man urinating into another's mouth, and other violent...
...First Amendment has never entertained a blush factor. Free artistic expression is broadly guaranteed. The question is whether the right of free expression carries along with it the privilege of federal subsidy. New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who tore up the Serrano catalog on the Senate floor, concedes the artist's "right to produce filth" but adds that "taxpayers' dollars should not be utilized to promote...