Description
A sharp, witty manifesto on taste, this classic essay explores “camp” as an aesthetic mode—deliberately theatrical, playfully ironic, and devoted to artifice rather than realism. Tracing how camp finds its power in exaggeration, glamour, and the pleasure of the “perverse,” it considers why certain performances, objects, and styles feel irresistibly alive while others fall flat. Sontag’s high-level framework links camp to innocence, to the refusal of moral seriousness, and to the way mass culture can be answered with style rather than conformity. Written in Sontag’s distinctive, incisive voice, these notes invite readers to rethink art, identity, and the meanings we attach to beauty, irony, and pleasure.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Feb 22, 2018
64 pages
ISBN: 9780241339701
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First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag.