Transgression, Controversy, Shock in Contemporary Art

ART that: breaks its own

rules

breaks social or religious taboos

Gilbert & George: Clean Me, 2004

offends against the authority of a political regime

Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, 1917

Jeremy Deller: Still fromThe Battle of Orgreave, 2001

Transgression: the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit

Edouard Manet: Dejuner sur l'herbe, 1863

Andres Serrano: Piss Christ, 1989

Andres Serrano Klansman ( Imperial Wizard ), 1990

estrangement defense

canonic defense formalist defenseManet

Jake and Dinos Chapman: Great Deeds Against The Dead,1994

Goya The Disasters of WarPlate 39Great Deeds - - Against the Dead1810 etching

Insult to Injury, 2003

JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN

Britishb. Cheltenham 1966

b. London 1962

Gerhard Richter: Annunciation after Titian,1973

Jackson Pollock

Extreme Art or Extreme Public Reaction? Art Crimes…

Chris Ofili : The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996

Afrodizzia, 1996

Captain Shit

Chris Ofili

Martin Creed:The Lights Going On and Off,2001

Marcus Harvey: Myra, 1997

Tracy Emin: My Bed, 1999

Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, 1917

DAMIEN HIRSTBritish, born Bristol

b. 1965

With Dead Head,1991

ANDRES SERRANOAmericanb. 1950

Sex and Death:Double 69, 1985

BRUCE NAUMANAmericanb. 1941

ED RUSCHAAmericanb. 1937

Tulsa Slut, 2002

Sometimes I Feel Beautiful, 2000

TRACEY EMINb. London 1963

GILBERT & GEORGEBritish

Proesch b. Italy 1943Passmore b. England 1942 Spit Naked, 1997

PAUL MCCARTHYAmerican

b. 1945

Basement Bunker Painting Queens in the Red Carpet Hall, 2003

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPEAmerican1946-1989

Self-Portrait, 1973

MAURIZIO CATTELANItalianb. 1960

Not Afraid of Love, 2000

YVES KLEINFrench American

1928-1962

Anthropometry, 1960

VANESSA BEECROFTItalianb. 1969

#3, 2000

Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988

JEFF KOONSAmerican

b. 1955