... open to appreciation purely as an exercise of beauty. It is not unreasonable to assume that Serrano wanted to open a much broader discussion than one surrounding aesthetics. As Cynthia Freeland notes in But Is It Art? (2001), "Serrano is a member of a minority group in the United States (he is part Honduran and part Afro-Cuban)" and in this group "bodily suffering ... of his own drawings. The remainder of the image has been completed using Hockney's own recognisable style. This has the affect of placing Picasso in Hockney's environment and so ultimately, under his control. An alternativ...

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