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The “Camp” Aesthetic: From Susan Sontag To The Met Gala

VISUAL Posted: May 10, 2019 1:01 pm

Sontag wrote her groundbreaking essay in 1963. In 58 paragraphs, she conducted an intuitive yet rigorous examination of a phenomenon that she defined as “a badge of identity among small urban cliques”. And this “private code” constituted a new mode of perception that collapsed traditional ideas of high and low culture, of elitism and mass appeal. Here was a new hierarchy of taste, no longer defined by the old gatekeepers. Camp was a “way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon”, she wrote, “in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylisation”.

VISUAL Published: 05.08.19

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 05.08.19

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