Against Interpretation and Other Essays

by Susan Sontag

That way, the way of Camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization.

For Camp art is often decorative art, emphasizing texture, sensuous surface, and style at the expense of content.

Many examples of Camp are things which, from a “serious” point of view, are either bad art or kitsch.

Pure Camp is always naïve. Camp which knows itself to be Camp (“camping”) is usually less satisfying.