List of androgynous people
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This is a list of notable people who have been described at any time as androgynous in their persona or presentation, either by self-identification or in reliable sources.
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- ^ a b c d Gammel, Irene (2003). "Limbswishing Dada in New York". In Paul Hjartarson; Tracy Kulba-Gibbons (eds.). The Politics of Cultural Mediation: Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve. Canadian Review of Comparative literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée. University of Alberta. p. 22. ISBN 9780888644121. ISSN 0319-051X.
A key to the Baroness's [Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven] performative trajectory into the postmodern era, then, is her radical androgyny, which publicly disrupts the binaries of conventional gender codes."
"The Baroness routinely shocked her viewers with her desexed body, her radical androgyny, as when she modelled for a film project in which the American photographer Man Ray and Duchamp collaborated in 1921."
"With her partner Sebastian Droste, Berber performed radical androgyny, enacting a state beyond conventional gender boundaries in in/famous nude performances. Droste was 'more and less than a man, more and less than a woman—different'."
"Meanwhile in France, the French photographer, surrealist poet, and performer Lucy Schwob, aka Claude Cahun (1894-1954), gave herself an androgynous identity that, like the Baroness's, was reflected in a stunning mutability of gender identities recorded in her photographs. - ^ Shulman, Randy (February 2018). "A few burning random questions for BØRNS". Metro Weekly.
MW: You're known for playing up androgyny in both your appearance and your performance. Is there a reason for it?
BØRNS: Apart from a lot of my favorite artists being androgynous, like David Bowie, Prince, and, just aesthetically, Grace Jones, I think there's something very sexy about androgyny. I don't really try to be androgynous. It's just who I am. - ^ Wagoner, MacKenzie (April 15, 2016). "Børns on Coachella, Nature's Best Shampoo—And Which Beatle Is His Long Hair Idol". Vogue.
There's something androgynous about it, too. I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything. I like the androgyny of how you present yourself. That's why I have two girls and two guys in my band. Ultimately music has no gender. I like playing with gender roles.
- ^ Segal, Corinne (January 11, 2016). "David Bowie made androgyny cool, and it was about time". PBS News Hour.
Throughout his career, Bowie never stopped showing us that androgynous was cool, that gender lines were unimportant in the face of a strong personal style.
- ^ "Insight: Androgyny in Contemporary Fashion". Luxuo. April 8, 2016.
the 1980s pushed androgyny into an era of high camp as the subcultural hotbed of London and New York's club scenes spawned the exaggerated trans-gendered theatricality of men in frocks. This stylized pantomime expressed extreme (bordering on perverse) stereotypes of doll-like femininity, propelling practitioners – most notably Leigh Bowery and Boy George – into the unhinged and deliberately absurdist heights of the surreal.
- ^ "Lucian Freud, Leigh Bowery, 1991". The Tate.
The extraordinary costumes he created for himself played on fashion, fetishism and carnival aesthetics and transformed his sixteen stones of flesh into an androgynous spectacle.
- ^ a b c Till, Rupert (2010). "Let's Talk About Sex". Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music. A&C Black. ISBN 9781441197245.
The images of Culture Club's Boy George, singer Marilyn and Dead or Alive's Pete Burns were as much influenced by drag acts as rock stars, deliberately androgynous
- ^ a b c McAlpine, Fraser (November 2011). "'80s Music Week: Five Great British Gender-Bending Pop Stars". Anglophenia. BBC America.
There were people who dressed androgynously before, and there were people who dressed androgynously afterwards, but Boy George was the sole reason 1983 was the year of the gender-bender in pop."
"Japan were a curious band, in that they all looked a little androgynous on their own, but manly on a positively Herculean scale next to David [Sylvian]'s shimmering and girly visage."
"[Pete Burns] looks far more androgynous now, after many battles with the plastic surgeons knife, than he ever did when he was supposed to be undermining the morals of the nation's youth. - ^ "Pete Burns, androgynous pop singer and reality television star – obituary". The Telegraph. October 25, 2016.
- ^ Wieder, Judy (January 20, 2004). "Richard's redemption". The Advocate: 73.
The area of androgyny has something to do with my spiritual interest too. A lot of "men" men aren't interested. I think it takes a certain feminine energy to do it because spirit is so compassionate. Polarized men want to manipulate the world and do stuff out there. When it gets to invading the whole world — then it's gone a little far! But with androgyny you've got the sensitivity of the female and the go-get-it-ness of the male, which is a wonderful combo.
- ^ "About Desireless", mtv.com. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ Rodrigo (May 12, 2017). "CVLT Nation interviews Florian Ayala Fauna -". CVLT Nation. Blast Beat Network. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ "Marla Glen - Melodiva".
- ^ Simon Hattenstone. "Grace Jones: 'God I'm scary. I'm scaring myself'", The Guardian, 17 April 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ^ Heizer, Donna K. (1996). "Else Lasker-Schüler's Oriental Performance Space". Jewish-German Identity in the Orientalist Literature of Else Lasker-Schüler, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel. Camden House. p. 43. ISBN 9781571130259.
Jussuf, both in the text and in Lasker-Schüler's adoption of his persona in her actual life, also shares many of these traits. As ideal Sufis, Tino and Jussuf represent solitary, androgynous prophets – which exemplifies Lasker-Schüler's own view of herself as an artist.
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