“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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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.
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.