CAMPE-To}! ON THE ORIGINS, AND DEFINITIONS OF CAMp ee Mark Booth Fast eating 3 series achrysilis, Tie clegance, ot quite "xpressing what's basiea Mozart camp smack of ‘Im the spect ator with weeCamp" is noe their their sheer number. Show, Daly de Gan wide. Infact, Sontag has difiul to becteri, are not a and Aristophanes plays tr ‘camp, bur that they have qv Camp Oscar Wilde, Ronald Frba Aubrey Beardsley, some pop art, eg. Andy Warhol ‘Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead All About Eve, Beat The Devil ‘The Temperance Seven Camp Disk Bogarde, Sarah Bernhard Inerview an Rits magazines Lindsay Kemp PJ. Peoby, Soft Cell, Fioruci clothes and acessories Sold gold safety pin, real boa constrictor Rocky Horror Show, Valmouth Andy Warhols Marilyn However, the seriously worrying thing ab in finding examples of thin She very properly mentions Jesu dering case pethaps) and Beethoven’s ps (but nor apparently the orchestral music? The difficulty in cis definition i the same a that in Ierw more helpful to say of Tennyson and of children’s cartoons nor tha that invite the patronage of ca people and camp objects (that i o say objects made by and for camp lows a much tighter definition of camp, ae Ee “This would help us to avoid talking aif camp somehow bleney Re “Teanyson or hacer, when amp people gi £0 appreciate then Cn Ps shed rom peopl and abe, which af amp peop - we Tight cl che ca 1nd then UF Own, we ihe Camp fads and fancies Aled, Lord Tennyson, Jean Gener Victor Mature, Jane Rus King Kong, Casablanca, Tom and Jerry Wolfgang Amadeus Mozare, 1 Trovatore B Camp fade and fancies Judy Garland, Joan Crawford Fanzines Nilinsky Shirley Bassey, Dollar Granny specs, col Real safety pin, 42nd Street, Babes in Arms Kitchener poster: Your Country Needs You (Ghurtst0 ON TH Oncis AN0 DereTons oF Ce Ge ents, i should immediately be apparent thatthe se righ hand coker, Tes cana batt wey Re ly endear them tthe sot iy, rackines, poor tase, tlshnesy the pony agin the novel of Gene asa relatively ned. To pit ona w 7 ree de, Warol and Bete Davis geting eet and Jane Rusell.In tying to make sme eeoad and Sontag were sein themscves an impos ‘marily a matter of self-presentarion rather than of sensibly If Ca ead Bored at home, and in desperation you try to amuse yourself oars an awful ol film, you are not being camp. You ony become soif vine ee the individual who displays them in a ouse of otherwise = Ming on the work of Isherwood and Sontag, and incorporating the above ‘i aa. we are now in a position ro define camp thus: To be camp is 10 ise mc ten al bs Sw Fr aero ta oe ome Coon a a csc ing ily eens i cal | nature of the self-presentation mah ing ita sort of off: # 1 ge ne an Frivolous as a holiday from moral seriousness; camp people are only. aces Anglo-Catholicism Catholicism ally not frivolous. . a © hel wt oS |eS —camp-tfesnyle- A work o Max 800TH Other types of the marginal are the: terribly-good. Thus, in the cul dsconive sr amp reflection of a camp ambi camp's fad related phenomena wi some of these confusions. co. ‘Troglodytes sometimes confuse ca that camp ‘Andy Warhol has though some may have been may Be true that many portion of people who exhib symp and so ate the apocalyptic fantasies of John Mat Mussolini b omeiskitsch, a even the concrete cherubs have the bald head and ion of Independence fiction and most Heavy Rock mu and fancies, ” Cane 10 ON TH Oucins Mo Desweronsce Cae onymOUS with camp, is eran 4 «camp peopl use the exaggerated perce of fo nique epitomised bys chameleons, a parrot ‘and a monkey called Darwin, Her public penona On stage, thea ortance of BO ase) of whe xvi ‘of dandyism (as he under- bears ‘a notinconsiderable ‘Monks who, by fasting from all the Prince Regent (later George I , He also uttered the maxim: A wellsied -boxes, china plate and bibelots, and he wr famous Butterfly Funeral.