07 September 2010

"Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic," or, paging Jana Sterbak

So, Gaga's new cover for Vogue Japan is making the rounds on teh internets today:




Interestingly, nobody is mentioning that it's basically a take on Jana Sterbak's relatively famous and important piece of feminist art, "Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic," first performed in 1987.



Gaga's referencing of this piece is totally post-goth; feminist, at least in the way Sterbak's piece is...that I dunno...
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2011 at 11:09 AM

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2011 at 11:12 AM

    p.s. the only reason it's at Pompidou is for the "ELLE" exhibit. also, forgive my language. My feelings for gaga still stand, but I cut and pasted that from an email I was sending and forgot to clean up the language.

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  3. robinFebruary 28, 2011 at 12:09 PM

    Anonymous, I deleted your comment b/c blogger does not allow me to disemvowel it. If you would like to re-post it sans the misogynist personal attacks (what we might call "ad feminiem" fallacies)--in other words, attack Gaga's work, not Gaga as a person--I'd be happy to have those comments on the post.

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