Notes on "Camp"

"Notes on 'Camp'" is a 1964 essay by Susan Sontag that brought the aesthetic sensibility known as "camp" to mainstream consciousness.

"[2] In Isherwood's novel two characters are discussing the meaning of camp, both High and Low.

Stephen Monk, the protagonist, says: You thought it meant a swishy little boy with peroxided hair, dressed in a picture hat and a feather boa, pretending to be Marlene Dietrich?

You're expressing what’s basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance.

[6] The 2019 haute couture art exhibit Camp: Notes on Fashion, presented by the Anna Wintour Costume Center at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, was built around Sontag's essay by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute.