So as a noun, 'camp' behaviour, mannerisms, et cetera. Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical. In 1909, the Oxford English Dictionary gave the first print citation of camp as In 1870, the crossdresser Frederick Park referred to his "campish undertakings" in a letter produced in evidence at his examination before a magistrate at Bow-street, London, on suspicion of illegal homosexual acts the letter does not make clear what these were. The American writer Susan Sontag's essay Notes on "Camp" (1964) emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".
so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal". In 1909, Oxford English Dictionary defined camp as "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical effeminate or homosexual" behavior, and by the middle of the 1970s, camp was defined by the college edition of Webster's New World Dictionary as "banality, mediocrity, artifice, ostentation. Ĭamp art is related to and often confused with kitsch and things with camp appeal may be described as cheesy. The visual style is closely associated with gay culture. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. Ĭamp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and pantomime.
Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption.
For other uses, see Campy (disambiguation).Ĭamp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value.
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