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I just finished this book (believe it or not in a “In and out” parking lot on the way to LA which somehow seems fitting. I just stood there because I was almost done and read the entirety of Notes on “Camp” in one go) A Review: A lot of good essays. On Style. notes on “camp” come to mind. I’ll focus on those. Great overview of art and how it came into being in the backdrop of the 1960s in New York. In many ways, trends of where art was going at the time and where technology was going and moving towards seems generally contemporary and could be words that I read in a blog post somewhere. Of course there are some ideas that are outdated but overall my feeling about how art is perceived and created doesn’t feel like it’s significantly changed in the past 50 years. If anything artists creators writers etc. in a modern setting have been struggling to find meaning in an increasingly complex and difficult age of mechanical reproduction hard. It also highlights Susan Sontag’s ambition or at least desire to create something interesting and lasting as she had just arrived in NYC with something to prove just as the 60s was happening.
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Curious how you think about ‘not real art’ gatekeeping, especially in today's framework with the content/models/tools/etc? Also interested in your perspective on artists’ responsibility for meaning given her commitment to experiencing art rather than excavating it? (Sontag is phenomenal imo. I'm interested in the answers folks have to these questions when they have/have not read her works, so not trying to nitpick or go big brain/exclusionary)
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Camp. Yeah what a fascinating concept. She splits this up in two. Camp, versus being campy. I would argue that from her interpretation being camp is actually always genuine and requires a level of naïveté. Campy on the other hand is to try to be “camp”. To extend this concept I would argue that she would say those that gate keep are inherently being campy. I think this dichotomy between the naïve creators, and I mean that in a good way, and the appraisers and critics – have always had this sort of relationship. I think in the 2000s and 20 tens, you saw it in the form of hipsters and hipster wannabes. And I think in the previous eras, I don’t know the terms exactly, but I’m sure you would have seen something rather similar. Dandyism versus pretending to be dandy maybe. I don’t know
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