> Is no one dunking sacred images in glasses of piss anymore? Or is the thrill just gone?
Haven't heard of any. Some are still destroying the pictures though.
The Guardian, Monday 18 April 2011 15.00 EDT
Piss Christ by Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano's Piss Christ has been destroyed by Christian protesters in Avignon, France, after weeks of protests.
When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his own urine and photographed it in 1987 under the title Piss Christ, he said he was making a statement on the misuse of religion.
Controversy has followed the work ever since, but reached an unprecedented peak on Palm Sunday when it was attacked with hammers and destroyed after an "anti-blasphemy" campaign by French Catholic fundamentalists in the southern city of Avignon.
The violent slashing of the picture, and another Serrano photograph of a meditating nun, has plunged secular France into soul-searching about Christian fundamentalism and Nicolas Sarkozy's use of religious populism in his bid for re-election next year.
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