Susan Sontag

Notes on Camp

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'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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  • Sasha Midlhas quoted5 months ago
    Camp is a certain mode of aestheticism
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted5 months ago
    But not everything can be seen as Camp. It’s not all in the eye of the beholder.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted5 months ago
    It’s embarrassing to be solemn and treatise-like about Camp. One runs the risk of having, oneself, produced a very inferior piece of Camp.

    These notes are for Oscar Wilde.

    ‘One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.’

    – Phrases & Philosophies for the Use of the Young

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