Notes on "Camp"
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| '''Notes On "Camp"''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_%22Camp%22] 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). | '''Notes On "Camp"''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_%22Camp%22] 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). | ||
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Notes On "Camp" [1] 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.
