Piss Christ (Re: milk and pee)

[davemarc]

> 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.

As far as I can recall, nobody here wrote anything about "Good Christians"
being wackos, etc.  The meanness, wacko-ness, and infantility was mainly on
the part of the politicians and other demagogues (yes, including Christian
zealots) who misrepresented poor ol' Piss Christ and the NEA in their
attempts to gain power, airtime, and/or great seats in the afterlife. 

The selection of poor ol' Piss Christ as representative of the NEA is
analogous to taking the cacophagy of GR out of its context and claiming
that it's representative of Pynchon or modern American fiction in general. 
(Hmmmm...maybe there's something to that after all!)  These philistines
tend to do the same kind of thing regarding "the media" whenever they're in
a mildly censorious mood.  If
you'd believe them, you'd never even suspect that art and music classes and
even Christmas concerts get much more public funding than poor ol' Piss
Christ, or that Howard Stern isn't the only "offensive" presence on the
airwaves.

davemarc