>the need, idea and experience of beauty has now been suspect for one
>hundred years and that there is very little contemporaneous stuff that
>answers to that need
I think Piss Christ is quite beautiful and I think Serrano understands beauty. But the public image of that piece is that it's transgressive for transgression's sake (and therefore also ugly). Serrano himself says he thinks of it as a religious, not sacreligious, work.