Celebrate the unapologetically, outrageously CAMP with this vivacious party of 100 people, objects, art movements, and much, much more.
What do Grace Jones, Benjamin Disraeli, Salvador Dali, K-Pop, and a giant art nouveau vase covered in fairies and stuffed with peacock feathers have in common? Answer: they are all, wildly, completely, and utterly ... Camp. Yes, C-A-M-P, that strange,
hard-to-define quality.
Over the last few decades, Camp has been tucked up in her four-poster, fast asleep. But now, having been roused from slumber by Anna Wintour for the 2019 Met Ball, Camp is back, and she might just be the thing you need to make sense of – and add some humor and irony to – this crazy, all-too-serious world.
In this hilarious, era-defining book, author and cultural commentator Simon Doonan gets to grips with Camp. Who is she? Where did she come from, and where did she go? Why is she back? Just who is Susan Sontag when she’s at home?! Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes 100 entries that are completely and unapologetically Camp – of course, Dynasty, poodles and RuPaul are here, but vampires, tattoos, Queen Victoria and even cake? Absolutely. Doonan makes the Camp case for these as well.
The Camp 100 is a manifesto like no other, a manifesto to turn down the temperature dial and take the world a bit less seriously. In seeing ‘Camp’ in the most unlikely places, this book might revolutionize the way you see the world entirely.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Lil Nas X
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
The Real Housewives
Chevalier d’Eon
Busby Berkeley movies
Stella
Coco Chanel
Greta Garbo
Diaghilev
Alan Carr & Allan Carr
John Waters
Blondes
Aubrey Beardsley
Erté
Pauline Bonaparte
Benjamin Disraeli
Linda Evangelista
Tchaikovsky
Edith Sitwell
Jean Lorrain
Josephine Baker
Elsie de Wolfe
Louis XIV
Oscar Wilde
Quentin Crisp
Queen Victoria tattoos
Art Nouveau
Agatha Christie
Opera
Sarah Bernhardt
Champagne
Zoolander
Michelangelo’s David
Queen Elizabeth II
Sailors
Radclyffe Hall
Barbara Cartland
Film noir
Diana Vreeland
Tallulah Bankhead
Death in Venice
The movies of Russ Meyer
Bette Davis & Joan Crawford
The movies of Douglas Sirk
Nuns
Poodles
Tennessee Williams’ movies
The movies of Maria Montez
The movies of Pedro Almodóvar
Edith Head
Silent movies
Pirates
Aquaman
Marchesa Casati
Harry Styles
Dame Edna
The Furries
Diana Ross
The New Romantics
Versace
Karl Lagerfeld
André Leon Talley
Peacock
Vampires
Liberace
Kraftwerk
Andy Warhol
Takarazuka
Dalí
The wellness movement
Cakes
George Clinton
The Spice Girls
Sam Smith
Latin divas
RuPaul Charles
Lady Gaga
Yma Sumac
Madame Yevonde
Love Island
Eurovision
Influencers
Dynasty
Cristiano Ronaldo
Eartha Kitt
Paris Hilton
Hair metal
The Kardashians
Bette Midler, Elton John & Rod Stewart
Grace Jones
Madonna
David Bowie
K-pop
Sadomasochism
Rappers
Grayson Perry
Alaska Thunderfuck
Elsa Maxwell
Death
Further reading & notes
Acknowledgements
About the author & the illustrator
Index
