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    Gaga Aesthetics

    Aug 23, 2022 4 minutes
    Book Review ERIN MCFADYEN

    Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition

    Vicki Karaminas and Adam Geczy

    Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

    RRP $170 AUD

    This is not really a book “about” Lady Gaga, and it’s certainly not a book about Lady Gaga’s lyrics. Nevertheless, a few lines from “Applause” – the closing track to Gaga’s third studio album, Artpop, 2013 – will help us into Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas’s themes:

    I’ve overheard your theory, “Nostalgia’s for geeks”

    I guess sir, if you say so, some of us just like to read

    One second I’m a Koons fan, suddenly the Koons is me

    Pop culture was in art,

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