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Camp is an aesthetic and sensibility that regards something as appealing or amusing because of its heightened level of artifice, affectation and exaggeration, [1] [2] [3] especially when there is also a playful or ironic element. [4] [5] Camp is historically associated with LGBTQ culture and especially gay men.
Yes, in queer circles they call that camping. … You can call [it] Low Camp…High Camp is the whole emotional basis for ballet, for example, and of course of baroque art … High Camp always has an underlying seriousness. You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it, you're making fun out of it.
The exhibition centered around camp. Camp has been defined in many different ways. Phillip Core, American artist, referred to camp by saying "The essence of dandyism consists of being obsessed with and knowledgeable about the limits of 'how far one can go too far.'" Kenneth Williams, English actor, said that "Camp is a great jewel, 22 carats." [15]
Camp (style), an ironic appreciation of that which might otherwise be considered outlandish or corny; also a description of effeminate male homosexual mannerisms and speech in British English; Camp Coffee, a concentrated coffee-flavoured syrup; T.H. Camp, a Lake Superior shipwreck off the coast of Wisconsin
The frazzled English woman aesthetic doesn’t care about defining the waist or lengthening your frame. It doesn’t involve any special tricks for how to layer your sweaters without adding bulk.
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But that doesn’t mean the man in the street agrees. If you look just at the growth numbers, they’ve been strong, and the unemployment rate’s pretty low. But consumer confidence remains muted.
Susan Lee Sontag (/ ˈ s ɒ n t æ ɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual.She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.