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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
almost did what it came to do but the second act does become rly superficial and just semantically driven
“Something is good not because it is achieved,
but because another kind of truth about the human situation, another experience of what it is to be human - in short, another valid sensibility - is being revealed”
but because another kind of truth about the human situation, another experience of what it is to be human - in short, another valid sensibility - is being revealed”
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
There is nothing more camp than Susan Sontag’s how to guide on Camp.
I cackled, I cried, I googled a shit ton of references I didn’t understand. Awestruck is the only word that comes close to describing the feeling of this book.
I cackled, I cried, I googled a shit ton of references I didn’t understand. Awestruck is the only word that comes close to describing the feeling of this book.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Notes on ‘Camp’:
- “And one cheats oneself, as a human being, if one has respect only for the style of high culture, whatever else one may do or feel on the sly.”
- “Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of ‘character’.”
- “And one cheats oneself, as a human being, if one has respect only for the style of high culture, whatever else one may do or feel on the sly.”
- “Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of ‘character’.”
One Culture and the New Sensibility:
- “The most interesting works of contemporary art are full of references to the history of the medium; so far as they comment on past art, they demand a knowledge of at least the recent past.”
- “The most interesting works of contemporary art are full of references to the history of the medium; so far as they comment on past art, they demand a knowledge of at least the recent past.”
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
I had such fomo back when everyone was reading this for Stella‘s camp seminar.
