7/11/2023 0 Comments New lana del rey![]() Images for comparison: the 1814 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painting Once artificial and authentic to the world we live in. Women, Berger argued, live in a state of self-consciousness that is at Social media would lend a new dimension to his thesis, Berger wrote thatĪ woman’s “own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense ofīeing appreciated as herself by another”-namely, by a male viewer. The image she was creating that, to many, she inevitably seemed fake.īut artifice is not the same thing as dishonesty. “gangster Nancy Sinatra,” as she herself put it. ![]() She was a moll, a starlet, a Stepford wife-a Murmurs her music into the front-facing camera of her phone.) She pouted as she sang, wearing lace and gold and crosses, looking likeĪ self-composed collage. music videos that made her famous,ĭel Rey intercut Webcam clips of herself with archival footage ofĪmerican iconography: palm trees, Vegas neon, roses blooming, police, In “ Blue Jeans” and “ Video Games,” the D.I.Y. ![]() Rendered through a narrow set of intertwined cultural tropes. ![]() Seeing,” Berger wrote that a woman is “almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself.” Since she entered the pop ecosystem, in 2011,ĭel Rey’s career has been defined by extravagant self-consciousness, Lana Del Rey always makes me think about John Berger, the writer andĬritic who died this past January, at the age of ninety.
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