Piss Christ

This article is about the photograph by Andres Serrano. For the song by Fear Factory, see Concrete (Fear Factory album). For the similarly named Fear Factory song "Pisschrist", see Demanufacture (album).

Piss Christ

Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.

The work generated much controversy based on assertions that it was blasphemous. Serrano said of the controversy: "I had no idea Piss Christ would get the attention it did, since I meant neither blasphemy nor offense by it. I've been a Catholic all my life, so I am a follower of Christ."[2]

  1. ^ Johnson, Jennifer (April 9, 1998). "NEA's Cloudy Future". Albion Monitor. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  2. ^ Nunes, Andrew (February 12, 2017). "The Creator of 'Piss Christ' Photographs Trump, Torture, and a Killer Clown". Vice.com.