Camp (style)
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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.""--Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp, 1964
- "[t]he difference between kitsch and camp is often hard to establish, partly because camp could be said to be in the eye of the beholder. Camp could be called a self-conscious kitsch and that self-consciousness can, indeed, exist on the part of viewer rather than the producer of the otherwise kitsch product." --Professor D.F. Felluga
Camp is an ironic appreciation of that which might otherwise be considered outlandish or corny; an affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style. Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value.
A part of the anti-academic defense of popular culture in the sixties and the 1964 essay Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag, camp came to popularity in the eighties with the widespread adoption of postmodern views on art and culture.
