Greedy Peasant Book Club Notes on Camp
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Todays excerpt reading is from:
Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on Camp”
Which I first discovered in the 2019 Met Costume Exhibit Catalog “Camp: Notes on Fashion” curated by Andrew Bolton.
Sontag Essay PDF available here:
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"I'm not an intellectual" sir you're providing educational content like a damn academic.
I feel like this is birth of meta camp
Lately I’ve been seeing tons of memes that are like “I am cringe but I am free” and I now see the connection to camp. Wow. I do feel better too!
sometimes when i’m bored, i daydream about what kind of look i would do for the Met Gala 2019.
I love that the book club is always changing. Thank you for sharing your joy and your art with us!
This is a complete triumph! Loved this installment of Book Club!
I too feel liberated. My son once said ‘mum you’re more camp than my gay friends.’ Forty years later I now understand what he means. 😎🤩
LOVE GP book club! I’m so happy when there is a new one!
This was the best Book Club YET!! I could not stop LAUGHING!!!
Thank you so much for this. I remember when that Met Gala theme was announced, I had zero clue, had no idea what was going on, and just didn't get why it was so buzzy... It's vaguely beginning to make sense, now. 💡
I love this, I very much resonate with it. My historically-inspired hyperfemininity can sometimes come across at very conservative, and I really want to make a series of elaborated embroidered lace collars and ribbon cockades that say things like 'I'm not religious I'm just queer' or 'This is a performance'. I had a friend who once referred to me as 'leftist mary poppins meets soccer mum' which is absolutely not an incorrect assessment, and my aesthetic has just gotten more extreme from there
I wish this video lasted at least 3 hours. I am fascinated.
So good! Now I'm stuck into the entire 'Against Interpretation' book again. Truly a magnificent book club this week darling one, what would we (and did we) do without you! Already looking forward to the next instalment xo
Wow, the more I watch your videos, the more I'm mesmerized by tassels....
Thank you for that wonderful book club, love your work-art-videos-persona WELL EVERYTHING
bisous de la cité cathare de Toulouse
OMG! I read the essay multiple times and I love it so much!
I would just like to say as a new member of the Greedy Peasant book club I LOVE IT! I’d love to see more long-form content:)
I love this is awfully presented college level intellectualism. (I mean this as a heartfelt compliment).
Honestly Sontag intimidates me as well, so thank you, thank you for reading her with us. Her essay on camp is so well-thought out, and it goes beyond the definition I had in my head of just outsized emotions and flamboyance. I am aware that I have minimal skills at decorating and a love of crochet in all its tacky glory, so I imagine that to someone with better taste, my home is most likely screaming camp in all-caps, but I enjoy, nay prefer, being true to my multi-colored Christmas lights and framed children's artwork lifestyle. And thus I am blissfully un-ironically camp.
YES. Thank you! I've had to try to explain what camp was to folks before and was just like, "It's bad but good." 🤷♀️
This was so interesting and enjoyable!
Best Book Club yet! Loved it!
omg im so happy you have a youtube account now!
Camp is irony.
When I think of camp, I think of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, in all their forms.
I saw the show... and now am seriously regretting not buying that book. The show was glorious.
new favourite youtube video
"this is commerce"
love having good reading recommendations!
The FIRST dandy - Evander Berry Wall - just dive on that.
😪💞🥰🤗SO WONDERFUL 🏆
I need "continual incandescence" as art or a tattoo or something
A treasure
thank you for this!
Loved this so much!!!! Now I wonder what the correlation between "Camp" and "Kitsch" is? I guess Gianni Versace would be Camp but not necessarily kitsch. But some kitsch can be camp... Thoughts anyone?
I feel as though "kitsch" is more low-culture, like a Barbie doll cake is both camp and kitsch, some unintentionally over the top theater costumes would be seen as camp, and a collection of porcelain kittens with big eyes would be just entirely kitsch. Yes? The Merriam-Webster definition actually backs me up here, of course I looked it up after writing the first sentence. something that appeals to popular or lowbrow taste and is often of poor quality
2 : a tacky or lowbrow quality or condition
teetering on the brink of kitsch
- Ron Miller
So fun and interesting!
That’s a cool book!
So how do I get a fully narrated audio book of notes on camp by you?
you are describing my life
Was that shade to Paul Hollywood? 🤣Is camp ever used as an insult?
I can't find the essay online. Helpppp
So by definition the 2019 met gala could not really be successful camp because it knows itself as camp? Or at least it was harder for it to be camp?
That illuminated manuscript looks like some kind of witchcraft... 🤨
😂
Camp belongs entirely to homosexual men. When anyone else describes camp they are immediately anti camp, didactic, boring. Nothing Lady Gaga does is camp. It's a corporate sponsored impression of what her audience thinks is outrageous. It's stilted, and often pretentious.
Camp between gay men needs no explanation. It's something known, and not by all homosexual men. But a lot. It's a language. Every time I've been around gay men in a group that is just gay men, camp emerges as a language.
Camp in art is determined by homosexual men. We see it, point at it, declare.
A book about camp, is not camp. Old VHS tapes with aerobic instructions, disco roller blading instructions, how to find a date instructions, that's camp.
You're camp. But this was not camp. Don't let them steal your superpower. Just go sail boarding on lakes in your costumes. Homosexual men will know you, point at you and declare. CAMP!
I would say, homosexual men and Mel Brooks.
Does this count as campsplaining?
@@jacquelinedurban1461 Sometimes we homosexual men like to be polite and invite people into the camp. But it never works out. The heteros just take over and ruin everything. So it's more an intervention.
@@laptopuser7908 Mel Brooks is sardonic. He's lampoon. But not camp. Close with Madeline Kahn sometimes.
Ok THIS is camp