What is "Camp"? Five Scholars discuss Sontag, The Met and Camp's Queer Origins
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What is "Camp"? Five Scholars discuss Sontag, The Met and Camp's Queer Origins
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monoskop.org- Since it entered the English language in the late 19th Century, the term has been subject to various interpretations, and there still doesn’t seem be a consensus. - Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay Notes on Camp is the inspiration for the 2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art gala and accompanying exhibition. In it, the late writer and filmmaker wrote: “To sn... See more
Joobin Bekhrad • What does it mean to be camp?
"Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated." - Susan Sontag A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. ... See more
susan sontag • Notes on Camp
The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp. The contributors look at both the meaning and the uses of camp performance, and ask: is camp a style, or a witty but nonetheless powerful cultural critique? The essays investigate camp from its early formations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century t... See more