''Blood Cross'' is one of American photographer

Andres Serrano Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist. His work, often considered transgressive art, includes photos of corpses and uses feces and bodily fluids. His '' Piss Christ'' (1987) is an amber-tinged photograph of ...

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images, released in 1985, two years before the controversial ''

Piss Christ ''Immersion (Piss Christ)'' is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Ce ...

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cross filled with cow's blood; the cross leaked slightly making it appear as though it was bleeding. It was exhibited along with ''Milk, Blood'' as part of Serrano's ''Fluids'' series. In 1999, a print of ''Blood Cross'' fetched £17,825 at auction, considerably higher than the original estimate of £5,000–8,000.

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