Contemporary Perspectives Lecture: Enrique Chagoya

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Mexican-born artist, Enrique Chagoya is known in the art world for his whimsical, satirical paintings, prints, and illustrated, codex-like manuscripts reflecting a world in dizzying political and cultural flux. His work has always had an [...]unapologetically irreverent edge. But Chagoya’s worldwide reputation was ignited one fall day in 2010, when a Montana woman took a crowbar to The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals, a multipanel lithograph depicting a sexually suggestive image of Jesus that had drawn feverish protests when it was shown at a museum in Loveland, Colo. Chagoya discusses and shows a video about the attack on that work, a commentary on the Catholic priest sex abuse cases that was dismissed by Chagoya’s detractors as “sacrilegious pornography,” and its unexpected aftermath.

Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Art on November 17, 2011
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