Abstract
from the whole truth and is elevated, unqualified and irreconcilable with the rest. Central to man's persistently contradictory vision of woman is the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. In it the sculptor Pygmalion sought to create, through his art, the most perfect, ideally beautiful woman possible. He succeeded indeed in creating a statue so lifelike, and so exquisite, that he fell in love with it and adorned it with gifts of rich clothing and jewels. Aphrodite took pity on his love; and, upon returning from the goddess's temple one morning, Pygmalion kissed the lips of his marble statue-and found them warm. The statue of his Ideal, now a living woman he called Galatea, was married by Pygmalion and later bore him a son.1
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