Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

There is, in a sense, no such thing as boredom. Boredom is only another name for a certain species of frustration.

The new sensibility is defiantly pluralistic; it is dedicated both to an excruciating seriousness and to fun and wit and nostalgia. It is also extremely history-conscious; and the voracity of its enthusiasms (and of the supercession of these enthusiasms) is very high-speed and hectic.

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.

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We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as fantasy when it is not our own.

If you don’t understand you cannot master

44. Camp proposes a comic vision of the world. But not a bitter or polemical comedy. If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

In Camp there is often something démesuré in the quality of the ambition, not only in the style of the work itself. Gaudí’s lurid and beautiful buildings in Barcelona are Camp not only because of their style but because they reveal – most notably in the Cathedral of the Sagrada Família – the ambition on the part of one man to do what it takes a gen