Name/Title
Camp : notes on fashionEntry/Object ID
GT523.B65Description
Although an elusive concept, "camp" can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fashion is one of the most overt and enduring conduits of the camp aesthetic. As a site for the playful dynamics between high art and popular culture, fashion both embraces and expresses such camp modes of enactment as irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration. Drawing from Susan Sontag's seminal essay "Notes on Camp," the book explores how fashion designers have used their metier as a vehicle to engage with the camp aesthetic in compelling, humorous, and sometimes incongruous ways. As a sartorial manifestation of the camp sensibility, this thought-provoking publication contributes new theoretical and conceptual insights into the camp canon through texts and images. Stunning new photography by Johnny Dufort highlights works by such fashion designers as Virgil Abloh, Thom Browne, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Alessandro Michele, Franco Moschino, Miuccia Prada, Richard Quinn, Yves Saint Laurent, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeremy Scott, Anna Sui, Gianni Versace, and Vivienne Westwood.Context
Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 9-September 8, 2019.Lexicon
Search Terms
fashion--exhibitions, fashion and art, fashion design, fashion designersLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Andrew Bolton, Karen Van Godtsenhoven, Amanda Garfinkel, Fabio CletoPublisher
Metropolitan Museum of ArtDate Published
2019Call No.
GT523.B65ISBN
1588396681, 9781588396686LCCN
99047171Notes
Length: 346General Notes
Note
2 volumes issued in 1