Piss Christ

The photograph that called for a separation of church and culture

Immersion (a.k.a. Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph of a plastic Jesus-on-a-crucifix figurine submerged in the artist’s, Andres Serrano’s, urine. It has gained the attention of Congress because it was created using money from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) without upholding “general standards of decency”. The work has been…