Notes On Camp Flashcards
1
Q
Style at the expense of?
A
Content
2
Q
To perceive camp in objects and persons is to
A
Understand being as playing a role
3
Q
Pure camp is always
A
Naive. Does not know itself to be camp.
4
Q
What is the essential element of pure camp?
A
A seriousness that fails
5
Q
The whole point of camp is to
A
Dethrone the serious
6
Q
Makes no distinction between what objects?
A
The unique object and mass produced object
7
Q
Two pioneering forces of modern sensibility
A
Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony
8
Q
Essence of camp?
A
Love of the unnatural, of artifice and exaggeration
