{"id":1612,"date":"2007-03-13T01:59:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2009-08-15T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T13:44:17","slug":"czanaras-hermaphrodite-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/13\/czanaras-hermaphrodite-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Czanara’s Hermaphrodite Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More obscure art, only now we’re talking really<\/em> obscure. This remarkable picture, The Hermaphrodite-Angel of Peladan<\/em> by Czanara, turned up in the archives of Russ Kick’s seemingly abandoned Rare Erotica blog<\/a>. \u201cCzanara\u201d was one Raymond Carrance (1921\u2013?), a gay artist who I haven’t come across before and who seems to be completely absent not only from my library, but from most of the web. A great shame, if there’s more of his work like this I want to see it.<\/p>\n

The \u201cPeladan\u201d of the title might be a reference to S\u00e2r P\u00e9ladan, founder of the Catholic Order of the Rose and the Cross in fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> Paris, and guru to a number of significant Symbolist painters, including the brilliant Jean Delville<\/a>. Hermaphroditism and androgyny were important themes for P\u00e9ladan who declared, in an outburst typical of the period, \u201cthe androgyne, is the plastic ideal!<\/a>\u201d Czanara’s picture is certainly Symbolist in its details\u2014those multiplied wings and hippogriffs\u2014even if its intent is most likely a result of mundane pornographic imperatives.<\/p>\n

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More obscure art, only now we’re talking really obscure. This remarkable picture, The Hermaphrodite-Angel of Peladan by Czanara, turned up in the archives of Russ Kick’s seemingly abandoned Rare Erotica blog. \u201cCzanara\u201d was one Raymond Carrance (1921\u2013?), a gay artist who I haven’t come across before and who seems to be completely absent not only … Continue reading “Czanara’s Hermaphrodite Angel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,5,45],"tags":[643,136,644,173],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-gay","category-symbolists","tag-androgyny","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-jean-delville","tag-russ-kick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-q0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}