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Orantby Joseph TonnaMr. Tonna seems to have created the top artwork specifically for the record album cover (small picture) entitled "The Effect of Estrogens in the Menopause," copyright 1960 by Ayerst Laboratories, which he also designed. (Maybe this should be called The Art of Not Menstruating.)A blurb on the cover explains the figure as "familiar to art historians and archaeologists as the Orant, [and] is often found in early frescoes and mosaics. For both pagan and Christian, it symbolized supplication for deliverance. The Orant portrayed here represents womankind's appeal for deliverance from the age-old afflictions of the menopause." (For more on menopausal afflictions, a controversial subject, see the lecture, 26 June 1998, also sponsored by a pharmaceuticals company.)The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary adds that the Church regarded the orant as especially significant because "it recalled the position of the Saviour upon the cross." Compare Female Crucifixion, by Martina Hoffman.Webster's Third International Dictionary reports that the orant was "used in early Christian art as a symbol of the faithful dead."By the way, all eight speakers on this LP are men.My thanks, again, to Kathleen O'Grady, a friend of this museum from the beginning, author of Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation, doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge (England), and creator of the MUM list of books about menstruation in English. She writes that she saw this album at a garage sale and "couldn't resist" buying it for 25 cents. She then kindly mailed it to her MUM. |
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