acknowledges human influence on polluting the earth. He also creates a situation, which solves the problem, and creates a work of art simultaneously. Andres Serrano seeks to awaken the values of faith and empathy in the Catholic religion. “Piss Christ” demonstrates the shocking but thought changing power of a contemporary artist. On a whole, art no longer is made on behalf of beauty. Beauty is simply an idea which is subject to change from various perspectives. As Thomas McEvilley claims “Among the major changes of the period in question is a loss of faith in the idea of beauty as a spiritual, universal, and, consequently, a change in the idea of the role of the artist. The artist actually became to be that destroyer of the idea of beauty” (qtd. Weintraub 258). The postmodern artists is asking the needed questions and creating the required answers with the attempt to educate and better the lives of all who care to notice....
