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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. ...
AVIGNON April 18, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the world’s most notorious pieces of anti-Christian “art†has been seriously damaged. French media reports that two young men were detained on Sunday in connection to the incident at an exhibition in the southern French city of Avignon, where two works were damaged, including one that depicted a crucifix immersed in urine.The photo, titled “Piss Christ,†said to have been valued at U.S. $25,000, was slashed yesterday with what police say was a pickaxe or screwdriver. The work had been protected by plexiglass, but this was smashed; the photo is reportedly damaged beyond repair.
