Art and hypocrisy.

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeNbr. 2008, May 2008

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Art and hypocrisy.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Matthew J. Milliner's "The Art of Transgression" (December 2007). Milliner conveys with accuracy the hypocrisy of the art world in its selective admission of religious themes only when these are conditioned by disdain, mockery, and even blasphemy of religion. The self-proclaimed cultural elites admit religion only when religious belief is somehow revealed as decapitated, an apt example being Gober's headless Christ.

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