Who was the real Bruce Conner?

The title of the exhibition Bruce Conner: Its All True, organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, comes from a letter the artist wrote, late in life, in which he listed 61 labels the media had attached to him and his work. These included artist and anti-artist, feminist and misogynist, spiritual and profane, accessible and obscure, realist and surrealist.
Its all true, Conner concluded. This welter of contradictions hints at why