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Revision as of 21:14, 29 December 2004 by Sandover (talk | contribs) (added Partisan Review an d pop art reference (from obituaries))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Notes On "Camp" is a well known essay by Susan Sontag organized around 58 numbered theses. It was first published in 1964 and was the author's first contribution to the Partisan Review. The essay created a literary sensation, and brought Sontag her first brush with intellectual notoriety. It was first collected in her volume Against Interpretation.
The essay codified and mainstreamed the cultural connotations of the word camp, and identified camp's evolution as a distinct aesthetic phenomenon. While camp, then as now, is often associated with gay culture, only three of Sontag's 58 theses specifically mentioned homosexuality.
Cultural historians credit Sontag's essay for providing a groundwork for the popular understanding and reception of Pop Art in the 1960s, notably the work of Andy Warhol.
Quotes
- 10. Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a "lamp"; not a woman, but a "woman." To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.
- 18. One must distinguish between naïve and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naive. Camp which knows itself to be Camp ("camping") is usually less satisfying.
- 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.
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