Celebrity After the Death of God:
Creating the Divine Star Image in the Music Videos of Lady Gaga
by Kristyn Goldberg
Figure 4
Lady Gaga wore this dress made of raw meat to the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards.
(source style.mtv.com)
Figure 5
Lady Gaga met Queen Elizabeth after appearing in the Royal Variety Performance in March, 2010
(source huffingtonpost.com)
Figure 6
Lady Gaga recorded this version of The Lady is a Tramp with Tony Bennett in 2011
(source youtube.com)
Figure 10
Pyramids at Giza, 4th Dynasty, c. 2575–c. 2465 BC; photo credit: E. Strouhal/Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY
(source: Grove Online Art Dictionary)
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Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the St Bernard Pass, oil on canvas, 1800–1 (Malmaison, Château National de Malmaison); Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource/NY
(source: Grove Online Art Dictionary)
Figure 13
Michelangelo: Creation of Adam (1511–12), fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome; Scala/Art Resource, NY
(source: Grove Online Art Dictionary)
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Figure 14 Augustus of Prima Porta (early first century), marble sculpture; Vatican Museums, Vatican State; Alinari/Art Resource, New York
(source: Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, accessed online)
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Grande Odalisque, oil on canvas, 1814 Paris, Musée du Louvre; Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY
(source: Grove Online Art Dictionary)
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Raphael: Madonna Della Sedia, oil on panel, 1513-14, Pitti Palace, Florence;
(source wikipedia.com)
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Bracelet Lady Gaga sold these rubber wrist bands on her site to raise money for the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan
(source: Grove Online Art Dictionary)