But not everything can be seen as Camp. It’s not all in the eye of the beholder.
Sasha Midlhat Zitat gemachtvorgestern
It’s embarrassing to be solemn and treatise-like about Camp. One runs the risk of having, oneself, produced a very inferior piece of Camp.
These notes are for Oscar Wilde.
‘One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.’
– Phrases & Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Sasha Midlhat Zitat gemachtvorgestern
There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion – and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Sasha Midlhat Zitat gemachtvorgestern
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself.
Sasha Midlhat Zitat gemachtvorgestern
I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it.
Sasha Midlhat Zitat gemachtvorgestern
To talk about Camp is therefore to betray it.
Sasha Midlhat Zitat gemachtvorgestern
And Camp is esoteric – something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques.
Sasha Midlhat Zitat gemachtvorgestern
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
Andreea Elenahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Monaten
BETTY FRIEDAN · The Problem that Has No Name FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA · The Dialogue of Two Snails YUKO TSUSHIMA · Of Dogs and Walls JAVIER MARÍAS · Madame du Deffand and the Idiots CARSON MCCULLERS · The Haunted Boy JORGE LUIS BORGES · The Garden of Forking Paths ANDY WARHOL · Fame PRIMO LEVI · The Survivor VLADIMIR NABOKOV · Lance WENDELL BERRY · Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Andreea Elenahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Monaten
CHINUA ACHEBE · Africa’s Tarnished Name SUSAN SONTAG · Notes on ‘Camp’ JOHN BERGER · The Red Tenda of Bologna FRANÇOISE SAGAN · The Gigolo CYPRIAN EKWENSI · Glittering City JACK KEROUAC · Piers of the Homeless Night HANS FALLADA · Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? TRUMAN CAPOTE · The Duke in His Domain SAUL BELLOW · Leaving the Yellow House KATHERINE ANNE PORTER · The Cracked Looking-Glass JAMES BALDWIN · Dark Days GEORGES SIMENON · Letter to My Mother WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS · Death the Barber