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Androgyny Hermaphrodites half-man, half-woman; offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 153] Cretan maiden reared as boy because father ordered all daughters killed. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 143] prophet who lived as man and a woman. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 255–256] |
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In the mid-'70s, just as art historians were resuscitating
forgotten artists like the Belgian Fernand Khnopff, who obsessively
painted sphinxes and androgynes as well as photographed his sister in
antique drag, Ontani -- in the midst of a profoundly personal
rediscovery of androgynous imagery in Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist art
-- was photographing himself in exalted and Old Masterish poses that
seemed to unlock his many doubles. |
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