by Susan Sontag
First published 2018
Sontag plunges into the camp sensibility - a love of the theatrical, the unnatural, the affected. From the glitz of Busby Berkeley to the wit of Oscar Wilde, she exposes camp as a subversive tool, a way for the marginalized to engage with and critique the mainstream. With piercing insight and biting humor, Sontag upends conventional notions of taste, challenging readers to see beauty in the frivolous.
Genres: art, essays, 20th-century, non-fiction, criticism
Vibes: intimate, thought-provoking, witty
Tropes: subversive, unconventional
Period: 20th-Century
57 pages · Paperback · Penguin Classics