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Transgression, Controversy, Shock

in Contemporary Art
ART that:
breaks its own
rules

Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, 1917

breaks social or
religious taboos

Gilbert & George: Clean Me, 2004

offends against the authority


of a political regime

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
estrangement defense

Andres Serrano
Klansman ( Imperial Wizard ), 1990

Manet
canonic defense formalist defense
Goya The Disasters of War
Plate 39
Great Deeds - - Against the Dead
1810 etching Jake and Dinos Chapman:
Great Deeds Against The Dead,1994
JAKE & DINOS
CHAPMAN
British
b. Cheltenham 1966
b. London 1962

Insult to Injury, 2003


Jackson Pollock

Gerhard Richter: Annunciation after Titian,1973


Extreme Art or Extreme Public Reaction? Art Crimes…

Chris Ofili : The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996


Captain Shit

Chris Ofili
Afrodizzia, 1996
Martin Creed:
The Lights Going On and Off,
2001
Marcus Harvey: Myra, 1997
Tracy Emin: My Bed, 1999
Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, 1917
DAMIEN HIRST
British, born Bristol
b. 1965

With Dead Head,1991


ANDRES SERRANO
American
b. 1950
BRUCE NAUMAN
American
b. 1941

Sex and Death:Double 69, 1985


ED RUSCHA
American
b. 1937

Tulsa Slut, 2002


TRACEY EMIN
b. London 1963

Sometimes I Feel Beautiful, 2000


GILBERT & GEORGE
British
Proesch b. Italy 1943
Passmore b. England 1942 Spit Naked, 1997
PAUL MCCARTHY
American
b. 1945

Basement Bunker Painting Queens in the Red Carpet Hall, 2003


ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
American
1946-1989

Self-Portrait, 1973
MAURIZIO CATTELAN
Italian
b. 1960

Not Afraid of Love, 2000


YVES KLEIN
French American
1928-1962

Anthropometry, 1960
VANESSA BEECROFT
Italian
b. 1969

#3, 2000
JEFF KOONS
American
b. 1955

Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988

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