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	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 [[taste (sociology)|bad taste]] or [[irony|ironic]] value.		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 [[taste (sociology)|bad taste]] or [[irony|ironic]] value.
-	A part of the anti-academic defense of [[popular culture]] in the [[sixties]], camp came to popularity in the [[eighties]] with the widespread adoption of [[Postmodern]] views on art and culture.	+	A part of the anti-academic defense of [[popular culture]] in the [[sixties]], camp came to popularity in the [[eighties]] with the widespread adoption of [[postmodern]] views on art and culture.

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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, camp came to popularity in the eighties with the widespread adoption of postmodern views on art and culture.