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My favourite part was when she randomly roasted For Whom the Bell Tolls and Winesberg, Ohio to make her point. Unnecessary savagery that I approve of.
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To claim Camp is ‘apolitical’, while noting the “peculiar relation between Camp taste and homosexuality”…*cue confused noises*
[…], Camp involves a new, more complex relation to ‘the serious’. One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
Amazing insights that have only become more relevant. Elements of camp (irony, mixture of high/low culture, appreciation of weirdness for its own sake) have only become more ubiquitous since this was published
Sontag's work made headlines again with the theme of Camp for the Met Gala back in 2019. I re-visited this again after working on Met Gala collages. Once again, I enjoyed reading Sontag's thoughts about the concept of Camp and how the phenomenon is an encapsulation of everything postmodern - from the need of ambiguity and expression that goes against the conventional grain, to the political social commentary aspects. You do need to concentrate in order to get what Sontag is saying due to how messy and inconsistent the essay is, but it is an interesting read - it IS Camp.
I loved both essays !!! Notes On Camp is a quintessential text for anyone interested in queer studies and the second essay denoting the tense and often binaric relationship between art and industry was an interesting take (if a little outdated now)
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