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 +"Many things in the world have [[Anonymity|not been name]]d; and many things, even if they have been named, have [[undescribed|never been described]]. One of these is the [[sensibility]] - unmistakably modern, a variant of [[sophistication]] but hardly identical with it - that goes by the [[Cult following |cult]] name of "[[Camp (style) |Camp]].""--"[[Notes on "Camp"]]" (1964) by Susan Sontag
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-:"Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the [[sensibility]] - unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it - that goes by the [[cult]] name of "[[Camp]]." " 
-'''Notes On "Camp"'''[http://www.jahsonic.com/NoC.html]is a well-known [[essay]] by [[Susan Sontag]] organized around fifty-eight numbered theses. It was published in [[1964]] and was the author's first contribution to the ''[[Partisan Review]]''. The essay created a literary sensation and brought Sontag her first brush with intellectual notoriety. It was published in 1966 in book form in Sontag's debut collection of essays, ''[[Against Interpretation]]'' (ISBN 0-87052-352-X).  
-The essay codified and mainstreamed the cultural connotations of the word [[Camp (style)|camp]], and identified camp's evolution as a distinct aesthetic phenomenon. While camp, then as now, is often associated with [[homosexual|gay]] culture, only three of Sontag's fifty-eight theses specifically mentioned homosexuality.+"'''Notes On "Camp"'''" is a well-known [[essay]] by [[Susan Sontag]] organized around fifty-eight numbered theses. It was published in [[1964]] and was the author's first contribution to the ''[[Partisan Review]]''. The essay created a literary sensation and brought Sontag her first brush with intellectual notoriety. It was published in 1966 in book form in Sontag's debut collection of essays, ''[[Against Interpretation]]'' (ISBN 0-87052-352-X).
-Cultural historians credit Sontag's essay for providing a groundwork for the popular understanding and reception of [[Pop Art]] in the 1960s, notably the work of [[Andy Warhol]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_%22Camp%22] +The essay codified and mainstreamed the cultural connotations of the word [[Camp (style)|camp]], and identified camp's evolution as a distinct aesthetic phenomenon. While camp, then as now, is often associated with [[homosexual|gay]] culture, only three of Sontag's fifty-eight theses specifically mentioned homosexuality.
 +Cultural historians credit Sontag's essay for providing a groundwork for the popular understanding and reception of [[Pop Art]] in the 1960s, notably the work of [[Andy Warhol]].
== A pocket history of Camp might include == == A pocket history of Camp might include ==
-:"A pocket history of Camp might, of course, begin farther back - with the mannerist artists like Pontormo, Rosso, and Caravaggio, or the extraordinarily theatrical painting of Georges de La Tour, or Euphuism (Lyly, etc.) in literature. Still, the soundest starting point seems to be the late 17th and early 18th century, because of that period's extraordinary feeling for artifice, for surface, for symmetry; its taste for the picturesque and the thrilling, its elegant conventions for representing instant feeling and the total presence of character - the epigram and the rhymed couplet (in words), the flourish (in gesture and in music). The late 17th and early 18th century is the great period of Camp: Pope, Congreve, Walpole, etc, but not Swift; les précieux in France; the rococo churches of Munich; Pergolesi. Somewhat later: much of Mozart. But in the 19th century, what had been distributed throughout all of high culture now becomes a special taste; it takes on overtones of the acute, the esoteric, the perverse. Confining the story to England alone, we see Camp continuing wanly through 19th century aestheticism (Burne-Jones, Pater, Ruskin, Tennyson), emerging full-blown with the Art Nouveau movement in the visual and decorative arts, and finding its conscious ideologists in such "wits" as Wilde and Firbank.' --Susan Sontag, ''Notes on Camp'', 1964+:"A pocket history of Camp might, of course, begin farther back - with the mannerist artists like [[Pontormo]], [[Rosso]], and [[Caravaggio]], or the extraordinarily theatrical painting of [[Georges de La Tour]], or [[Euphuism]] ([[Lyly]], etc.) in literature. Still, the soundest starting point seems to be the late 17th and early 18th century, because of that period's extraordinary feeling for [[artifice]], for surface, for symmetry; its taste for the picturesque and the thrilling, its elegant conventions for representing instant feeling and the total presence of character - the epigram and the rhymed couplet (in words), the flourish (in gesture and in music). The late 17th and early 18th century is the great period of Camp: Pope, Congreve, Walpole, etc, but not Swift; les précieux in France; the rococo churches of Munich; Pergolesi. Somewhat later: much of Mozart. But in the 19th century, what had been distributed throughout all of high culture now becomes a special taste; it takes on overtones of the acute, the esoteric, the perverse. Confining the story to England alone, we see Camp continuing wanly through 19th century aestheticism (Burne-Jones, Pater, Ruskin, Tennyson), emerging full-blown with the Art Nouveau movement in the visual and decorative arts, and finding its conscious ideologists in such "wits" as Wilde and Firbank.' --Susan Sontag, ''Notes on Camp'', 1964
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"Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility - unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it - that goes by the cult name of "Camp.""--"Notes on "Camp"" (1964) by Susan Sontag

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"Notes On "Camp"" is a well-known essay by Susan Sontag organized around fifty-eight numbered theses. It was published in 1964 and was the author's first contribution to the Partisan Review. The essay created a literary sensation and brought Sontag her first brush with intellectual notoriety. It was published in 1966 in book form in Sontag's debut collection of essays, Against Interpretation (ISBN 0-87052-352-X).

The essay codified and mainstreamed the cultural connotations of the word camp, and identified camp's evolution as a distinct aesthetic phenomenon. While camp, then as now, is often associated with gay culture, only three of Sontag's fifty-eight theses specifically mentioned homosexuality.

Cultural historians credit Sontag's essay for providing a groundwork for the popular understanding and reception of Pop Art in the 1960s, notably the work of Andy Warhol.

A pocket history of Camp might include

"A pocket history of Camp might, of course, begin farther back - with the mannerist artists like Pontormo, Rosso, and Caravaggio, or the extraordinarily theatrical painting of Georges de La Tour, or Euphuism (Lyly, etc.) in literature. Still, the soundest starting point seems to be the late 17th and early 18th century, because of that period's extraordinary feeling for artifice, for surface, for symmetry; its taste for the picturesque and the thrilling, its elegant conventions for representing instant feeling and the total presence of character - the epigram and the rhymed couplet (in words), the flourish (in gesture and in music). The late 17th and early 18th century is the great period of Camp: Pope, Congreve, Walpole, etc, but not Swift; les précieux in France; the rococo churches of Munich; Pergolesi. Somewhat later: much of Mozart. But in the 19th century, what had been distributed throughout all of high culture now becomes a special taste; it takes on overtones of the acute, the esoteric, the perverse. Confining the story to England alone, we see Camp continuing wanly through 19th century aestheticism (Burne-Jones, Pater, Ruskin, Tennyson), emerging full-blown with the Art Nouveau movement in the visual and decorative arts, and finding its conscious ideologists in such "wits" as Wilde and Firbank.' --Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp, 1964




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