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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
Love love love! I’m embracing camp wholeheartedly now and also enjoyed the second essay as an English literature student very helpful in critiquing the arts. Very Readable and won’t take long. Pioneering work and essential to begin engaging in this discussion
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Tbh I’m writing this simply to try and remember what I read as people have stated that writing reviews helps with that. This was a pretty self gratifying read, as indulging in the passionate yet heavily flawed is something that deserves more love in a world filled with seemingly solid and justifiable artwork that ends up leaving me with nothing but the questionabe aftertaste I might receive from eating something processed to the point of upsetting my stomach. At best it leaves me with nothing but usually I’m left soured by either the absence of passion or mass produced flavor, art should be the last place you find something like that. While camp might seem like a mystic and undefinable thing, I don’t think defining it should be the goal, instead attributing it more to a feeling feels more natural. Camp is eztravagant and still incredibly approachable and loveable out of its lack of seriousness, instead having more fun and retailing more charisma through the medium of art and character. Each of the quotes scattered throughout felt entirely intentional and either sparked a laugh, enlightenment, joy, or any other mixture of witty inspiration. While camp gains strength through not having intentions to be camp, I still think this essay can inspire and inform a lot of people in their own creative liberties, as instead of forcing oneself to be anything but themselves they are allowed to explore and release inhibitions. This is an essay I will definitely come back to as I feel like I’m just starting to peel back the layers of this wonder of the world, so I might not have everything right yet, so I recommend anyone to read and take your own viewpoints.
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La mayoría de invitados a la Met Gala de 2019 se debería haber leído este ensayo.
Susan Sontag siempre habla facts.
Susan Sontag siempre habla facts.
Sontag baserar stora delar av sin argumentation kring konceptet ”sensibility” men jag tycker inte man får en god tolkning av vad termen omfattar. (Vidare läsning: T.S Eliot, ”dissociation of sensibility”.)
En personlig uppsats, stundvis motsägelsefull där det pretentiösa utdöms samtidigt som en stor del konst och kultur förklaras dålig?
“The purpose of art is always - ultimately - to give pleasure” - alltså ja. Personligen. Men också nää??
Bör läsas flera gånger. (Förslagsvis efter nya Barbie-filmen för en jämförelse i ”camp”.)
En personlig uppsats, stundvis motsägelsefull där det pretentiösa utdöms samtidigt som en stor del konst och kultur förklaras dålig?
“The purpose of art is always - ultimately - to give pleasure” - alltså ja. Personligen. Men också nää??
Bör läsas flera gånger. (Förslagsvis efter nya Barbie-filmen för en jämförelse i ”camp”.)
“When something is just bad (rather than Camp), it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition.”
The 'notes on Camp' essay was great, the second essay was less interesting. The reason I decided to read it had nothing to do with the 2019 Met Gala or Harry Styles. At least you can't prove it anyway. Here's one of my favourite quotes from it:
"Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of 'character'... Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as 'a camp', they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling."
The 'notes on Camp' essay was great, the second essay was less interesting. The reason I decided to read it had nothing to do with the 2019 Met Gala or Harry Styles. At least you can't prove it anyway. Here's one of my favourite quotes from it:
"Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of 'character'... Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as 'a camp', they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling."
There isn’t much to be said about Notes on ‘Camp’ that hasn’t already been said. Camp is something that eludes description, eludes notes, and Sontag is very aware of this. For something to be Camp, it cannot be aware that it is Camp - the naïvity is part of it. Camp is about unironically shooting for the moon and missing - not to land among the stars but to come crashing back down to Earth in a fiery burst - but thinking that it has landed.
Notes on ‘Camp’ is an interesting read to see the highlighted pieces of culture from the mid ‘60s that made up the Camp canon at the time, the ideas and aestheticisms and moralisms that were being attempted at the time. I think that in the last sixty years the nature of Camp has changed somewhat, but in what ways specifically I couldn’t say. I think we embrace tragedy as Camp more, now - Sontag tells us that tragedy is the antithesis of Camp, but she didn’t know what was about to happen in the 70s and 80s with the AIDs crisis bringing gay tragedy to the forefront of media perception. In this way tragedy has become unavoidably Camp.
Ok now that no one else is reading - MASH has elements of Camp because of Alan Alda’s burlesque influence in playing Hawkeye, who is a character displaying conscious Camp and failing due to the inherently tragic nature of the show’s framing. David Ogden Stiers purposefully plays Charles as an old dandy who is opposed to all that is vulgar - and therefore to the Camp represented by Hawkeye. Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.
Notes on ‘Camp’ is an interesting read to see the highlighted pieces of culture from the mid ‘60s that made up the Camp canon at the time, the ideas and aestheticisms and moralisms that were being attempted at the time. I think that in the last sixty years the nature of Camp has changed somewhat, but in what ways specifically I couldn’t say. I think we embrace tragedy as Camp more, now - Sontag tells us that tragedy is the antithesis of Camp, but she didn’t know what was about to happen in the 70s and 80s with the AIDs crisis bringing gay tragedy to the forefront of media perception. In this way tragedy has become unavoidably Camp.
Ok now that no one else is reading - MASH has elements of Camp because of Alan Alda’s burlesque influence in playing Hawkeye, who is a character displaying conscious Camp and failing due to the inherently tragic nature of the show’s framing. David Ogden Stiers purposefully plays Charles as an old dandy who is opposed to all that is vulgar - and therefore to the Camp represented by Hawkeye. Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.