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80′s Perfume Ads and Camp: Calvin Klein’s Obsession

In 1964, the literary and art critic Susan Sontag published an essay in Partisan Review entitled “Notes on ‘Camp’” in which she enumerates camp’s evolution as a distinct aesthetic category.  Sontag writes: The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a …

Katherine February 28, 2012 Perfumes, Smell Theory Permalink
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