"#25: The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance."
— Susan Sontag

"Either the wallpaper goes or I do!" — Oscar Wilde’s last words


Wer aehnlich neugierieg wurde wie ich - was ist mit unseren Tenenbaums??? und was genau ist "camp"??? http://brightshiny.thejetsetjunta.se/?p=27 - fuer den hab ich kurz recherchiert:
Einen Artikel zu Susan Sontag und den Tenenbaums aus der Koelner StadtRevue vom Maerz 2002
http://www.stadtrevue.de/index_archiv.php3?tid=154&bid=5&ausg=03/02
und Susan Sontags Essay "Notes On Camp" von 1964 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_%22Camp%22 , hier:


"Notes on Camp" by Susan Sontag

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility -- unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it -- that goes by the cult name of "Camp."

A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques.
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