milk and pee

[RICHARD ROMEO]

DYB wrote:  A-and of course the representation of Christ in a bodily 
fluid riffs on
His blood--another abject emanation from the supposedly totalized 
subject.
You cannot be totalized if you've borders that secrete...milk, too, plays
into this dynamic, as well as suggesting the fundamental mother-child 
dyad
which Christ both reflects (Madonna and Child) and subordinates (His
Father ultimately supercedes His mother.)  That the passion can be
associated with urine as well as blood perhaps plays on issues of
marginalization--how we hierarchize to generate meaning from abstract
material.  Christ of course championed the marginalized, something Good
Christians tend to conveniently forget.  Finally, the big question
pertains to why this country full of yahoos who eschew art and art 
museums
(and not because these insititutions are painfully racist, sexist,
classist and homophobic, though they are) can get it up to worry about
something like Piss Christ.  They never would have seen it anyway.  Most
of you probably haven't.  But its presence attests to the heterogeneity 
of
the self, IMHO, and therefore must be silenced.
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True the reaction to art works such as this is incomprehensible but that 
does not justify Piss Christ as great art.  There continues to be a 
rather skewed view of us "Good Christians" nowadays that we're all wackos 
and represent the true meaness that many view Christianity today.  
Whereas you see PC as beautiful I see it as rather infantile and not 
adding to what I had known before or perceived in others.
Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org