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A 3 page paper which examines the relationship between Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp” and Pop Art. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of some type, generally commenting on something political or social in the culture at the time. It is a form of art that is often misunderstood by perhaps "cultured" people
but yet a form of art that clearly speaks to others. The following paper examines Susan Sontags essay Notes on "Camp" as it relates to Pop Art. Susan
Sontags Notes on "Camp" In the beginning of her essay Sontag notes the following: "Many things in the world have not been named;
and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility -- unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with
it -- that goes by the cult name of Camp" (Sontag). In many ways Pop Art is just that, Camp. It is something that does, however, have a name.
But, at the same time it possesses elements of camp because it is so diversely different from the mainstream art, fine art, that came before Pop Art. And, even decades
after the arrival of Pop Art it still remains imbedded in camp in many ways. One cannot discuss Pop Art without really
examining the work, at least one piece of Andy Warhol. He is, in the opinion of many, the creator of Pop Art. He took images that were common, such as
the label on a Campbells soup can, and reproduced it into what appears to be pointless nothingness, clearly connecting it with camp. But, in other ways he was clearly making
a powerful comment on the consumer nature of the American people and in this it makes a statement, albeit a seemingly pointless one to many who are more refined and
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