id:			158992
accession number:	1995.204.7
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.204.7
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"In a Dream...": Blood and Semen V, 1990. Andres Serrano (American, 1950-). Silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome); image: 40 x 59.6 cm (15 3/4 x 23 7/16 in.); paper: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.); matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS 1995.204.7 © Andres Serrano

title:				Blood and Semen V
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series:				"In a Dream..."
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creation date:			1990
creation date earliest:		1990
creation date latest:		1990
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creditline:			Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS
copyright:			© Andres Serrano

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome)
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Portfolio
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CREATORS

* Andres Serrano (American, 1950-)  - artist
Andres Serrano American, 1950- Andres Serrano, who believes that "there is no such thing as the sacred without the profane," draws from an iconography informed by the rituals and ideologies of his Catholic upbringing. His images often incorporate sacrosanct icons along with psychologically and morally charged substances such as blood, sperm, urine, and milk. The technically accomplished color photographs embalm the subjects in an aura of artifice, addressing the tension in late 20th-century America between spirituality and commercialism. Serrano (born in New York City) attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1967–69) and worked in an advertising firm before deciding in the early 1980s to enter full-time New York's politically charged art scene. Later in the decade, working under the auspices of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Serrano gained international attention as the target of attacks from politicians and religious leaders who took offense to his photograph Piss Christ (1987), which depicts a crucifix submerged in a jar of urine. The debate over the image's "blasphemous" nature epitomized the virulent relationship between conservatives and politically active artists during a period fraught with contentions that continue to the present day regarding definitions of art and pornography and the dispensation of federal arts funding. Serrano continues to examine charged subject matter. His series include KKK Portraits (1991), Morgue (1992), and Objects of Desire (1994-95). In addition to his controversial nea fellowship, Serrano has garnered awards from the National Studio Program at P.S. 1 (1985), the New York Foundation for the Arts (1987), the Cintas Foundation (1989), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1989). In 1995 the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, organized Andres Serrano: Works 1983-1993, a mid-career traveling survey. Serrano lives in Brooklyn. A.W.
* Portfolio II published by Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS  - publisher

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measurements: Image: 40 x 59.6 cm (15 3/4 x 23 7/16 in.); Paper: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "Andres Serrano [signed] 11/25"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Main gallery rotation (gallery 229): April 20, 2015 - October 19, 2015.', 'opening_date': '2015-04-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Anonymous Donor
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 4, 1995
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 317
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