Camp : the lie that tells the truth / Philip Core ; foreword by George Melly.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Delilah Books : Distributed by the Putnam Publishing Group, 1984.Description: 212, [4] p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0859650448 (pbk)
- 0859650456
- 0933328834
- 0933328834 (pbk.) :
- 0933328834 (pbk.) :
- 0933328834
- NX210 .C67 1984
- NX210 .C673 1984
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | NX 210 COR 1984 | 1 | Available | 210641 |
"A Delilah book."
Bibliography: p.[214-216].
Camp style, in behaviour, clothing, artistic output or emotions, has never been properly explored or defined. Jean Cocteau, as camp a figure as Paris has ever produced, said in Vanity Fair in 1922, 'I am a lie that tells the truth.' This paradox is the basis of Philip Core's personal definitions of camp, seen from the inside. His depictions of more than two centuries of camp find it embodied in personalities and places, objects and artefacts. He has written a who's who and a what's what of camp, a deceptively descriptive and factual lexicon, allowing the reader to build up a kaleidoscopic picture of camp through the ages. It is complemented with 150 photographs and a foreword by England's foremost authority on surrealism, eccentric behaviour and hats, jazz singer George Melly.--From publisher description.
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