A Brief History of Money and Religion

Richard Serra, 1973, TV Delivers People. In this period, art becomes electronic as well. Richard Serra uses the medium to comment on the commercial society dominated by corporate money.[33]The death of God ends the separation between the divine and the mundane by revealing the sacrality of nature and culture. In its use of an everyday medium for art, Serra's piece is a good example of the parallel end of art as a domain transcending everyday experience.[34]

Jenny Holzer, 1987, selections from the survival series, Candlestick Park, San Francisco. In the 1980s, Jenny Holzer used the formal (LED boards) and verbal language of advertising to comment.

With Holzer's work, the language of commerce goes inside the museum. The Rotunda Installation, Guggenheim, NY 1988.

In this era of electronic money, the art of JSG Boggs seems anachronistic.