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When the theme is important, and contemporary, the failure of a work of art may make us indignant. Time can change that. Time liberates the work of art from moral relevance, delivering it over to the Camp sensibility

Camp taste transcends the nausea of the replica.

Method acting (James Dean, Rod Steiger, Warren Beatty)

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.

32. Camp is the glorification of ‘character.’ The statement is of no importance – except, of course, to the person (Loie Fuller, Gaudí, Cecil B. De Mille, Crivelli, de Gaulle, etc.) who makes it. What the Camp eye appreciates is the unity, the force of the person. In every move the aging Martha Graham makes she’s being Martha Graham, etc., etc …. This

Sensations, feelings, the abstract forms and styles of sensibility count. It is to these that contemporary art addresses itself.

Thus, things are campy, not when they become old – but when we become less involved in them, and can enjoy, instead of be frustrated by, the failure of the attempt.

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