Editing Transgressive art (section)

=== In visual art ===
Transgressive artist [[Richard Kern]] began making films in New York City with actors [[Nick Zedd]] and [[Lung Leg]] in the early 1980s. Some were videos for musical artists, including the [[Butthole Surfers]] and [[Sonic Youth]].<ref>[https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3767 Films by Richard Kern: Program 2 {{!}} MoMA]</ref>

During the 1980s, artists such as [[Dread Scott]] created art that was so controversial that it ended up in the supreme court. In the case of Scott, [[United States v. Eichman]], the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the government to prohibit an artwork that desecrates the American Flag.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cohen|first=Alina|date=2018-07-25|title=It's Legal to Burn the American Flag. This Artist Helped Make It A Form of Free Speech.|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-1989-artwork-asked-viewers-step-flag-ignited-firestorm-raging|access-date=2021-05-04|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> Another artist, [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], caused the Director of the [[Contemporary Arts Center]] in Cincinnati to be put on trial for obscenity in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Palmer|first=Alex|title=When Art Fought the Law and the Art Won|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-art-fought-law-and-art-won-180956810/|access-date=2021-05-04|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en}}</ref> Both cases were ruled in favor of the artists.

Among the most notorious works of transgressive art among the general public have been sculpture, collages, and installation art which offended Christian religious sensibilities.  These include [[Andres Serrano]]'s ''[[Piss Christ]]'',<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140728060356/http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=transgressive-art-as-a-form-of-protest&iid=32&articleid=938 Transgressive Art as a Form of Protest-Art News & Views]}}</ref> featuring a crucifix in a beaker of urine, and [[Chris Ofili]]'s ''[[The Holy Virgin Mary]]'', a multi-media painting which is partially made of elephant dung.

Jeffrey Weiss of [[Artforum]] considers some of the work of [[Cy Twombly]] to be transgressive, citing "drawing as a form of scrawl".<ref>[https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/200808/cy-twombly-21145 By Jeffrey Weiss], [[Artforum]]</ref>