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Camp And Kitsch
A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
Pieces of art or other objects that appeal to popular or uncultivated taste, as in being garish or overly sentimental.
A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings
Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.
Of art and decor: of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
A place, often in the country, that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children
(Sports) A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.
of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
The people attending the programs at such a place.
A program offering group instruction or recreation without overnight facilities.
A prison camp or concentration camp.
A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect
To live in or as if in a camp; settle
To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp
To act in a histrionic or exaggerated manner.
To act in an exaggerated, effeminate manner.
Given to or characterized by exaggerated, effeminate mannerisms.
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
The company or body of persons encamped.
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; called also burrow and pie.
An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
(video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;
a group of people living together in a camp;
temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers;
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality;
shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months;
give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities;
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Etymology 1
From ( etyl ) .
The verb is from ( etyl ) ( m ), from ( etyl ) ( m ), .
Noun
( en noun )
( label ) Conflict; battle.
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
A single hut or shelter.
a hunter's camp
The company or body of persons encamped.
* Macaulay
The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
(uncommon) campus
(informal) A summer camp.
(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; called also burrow and pie.
(UK, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
( Halliwell )
Verb
( en verb )
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
To wrangle; argue.
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
To set up a camp.
To afford rest or lodging for.
* Shakespeare
Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together.
(video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.
The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
Go and camp the flag for the win.
Adjective
( - )
of or related to a camp
Derived terms
* camper
* campness
* campfire
* camp site, campsite
* campstead, campsteading
* campground
* campestral
* concentration camp
* death camp
* extermination camp
* fat camp
* spawn camping
* summer camp
Etymology 2
Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure. listed in the Oxford English Dictionary'', second edition (1989) Suggested origins include the 17th century French word ''camper'', 'to put oneself in a pose', Douglas Harper, "camp (adj.)"] in: ''Etymonline.com - Online Etymology Dictionary'', 2001ff an assumed dialectal English word ''camp'' or ''kemp'' meaning 'rough' or 'uncouth' and a derivation from ''camp'' (n.) Micheal Quinion, [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cam1.htm "Camp" in: ''World Wide Words , 2003
Noun
( - )
An affected]], [[exaggerate, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
Adjective
( er )
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
(of a, man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
Noun
( - )
Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.
* 1939 , , " Avant Garde and Kitsch ", The Partisan Review ,
Because it can be turned out mechanically, kitsch has become an integral part of our productive system in a way in which true culture could never be, except accidentally.
Adjective
( en-adj )
Said especially of art and decor that is considered to be of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
* 1989 , Graham Greene, Yours etc: Letters to the Press 1945-1989 , ISBN 1871061229, p. 243,
* 1996 , Robert Silberman, "The stuff of art: Judy Onofrio", American Craft , Jun/Jul 1996, pp. 40-45,
Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity.
* 2005 , Ronald Frame, "Critical Paranoia", Michigan Quarterly Review , Spring 2005, p. 285,
I recognized her at once even though she wasn't wearing the tweed hunting outfit and the kitsch headwear.
Usage notes
* Although the forms ( kitscher ) and ( kitschest ) are attested, those formed on ( kitschy ) are more common, particularly for the comparative.
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What is the difference between ‘camp’ and ‘kitsch’?
I heard someone, can’t remember their name, I think it was on the NPR podcast Pop culture Happy Hour, call the Fast and the Furious franchise “straight camp.” It occurred to me, do straight people who were not in theater not know that camp isn’t exclusive to drag shows?
Likewise, I was listening to a podcast recently — I think it was one of the 99% podcasts — when someone in interview started talking about something being ‘camp’ and I realised I have no idea what the word actually means. I thought it described the behaviour of stereotypically gay men, in relaxed, social mode. But no. I still had no idea what it meant, even after listening to a lengthy discussion about it in relation to architecture.
But then, a few weeks later, I came across ‘camp’ again in an essay about David Bowie:
Camp is notoriously hard to define, but in most conceptions it involves both a sense of doubleness — things are not merely what they seem to the naive viewer — and a preference for reversal — the very bad now reinterpreted as good. Camp makes most sense not as an aesthetic style — like classicism or modernism — but as a mode of apprehension or a hermeneutic. It is a way of understanding or interpreting the world. Historically, camp emerges in gay subculture where it functions as a kind of passive resistance to the straight world, much of the cynical humor of the Russians was a form of passive resistance to Stalinism…. Transvestitism for obvious reasons lends itself to camp interpretation, and the embrace of artifice over nature is a convention of camp taste… camp interpretation requires a lack of seriousness and the rejections of sincerity .
( Hermeneutic is another word which I keep having to look up.)
This is probably the best description of camp that I have seen, because it describes how it relates to gay culture, while explaining in clear terms the wider context.
In her book about fairies, Troublesome Things, Diane Purkiss describes the practice of purchasing fairy items and jewellery for little girls: “The parents I know justify the purchase of this lavishly doubtful product by using the phrases ‘camp’ and ‘tongue-in-cheek’ a lot, by which they mean that the violation of taste canons is so glaring as to be no threat. “
In children’s literature we don’t tend to use the word camp to describe this ‘reversal’ of the established order; we use the term carnivalesque . Though they are slightly different, I now consider them very much related as concepts.
Another word I have trouble defining — apart from ‘I know it when I see it sense’ is kitsch.
Fantasy has a problem – it is inherently kitsch . What do I mean by kitsch? Crap that people unaccountably like. The dictionary defines kitsch as tawdry, vulgarised or pretentious art usually with popular or sentimental appeal. Unicorns, wizards, put upon young wretches who come to be great mages, haughty princesses, riders in dark cloaks – Robert Jordan, if you want it summed up in two words.
There is an inherent snobbishness in the word kitsch. Worse than snobbishness, perhaps:
Critics’ widespread distaste toward kitsch springs from an unwillingness to tolerate any kind of emotion that is seen as too sentimental or “sweet.”
The Problem of Kitsch by Maranda Bennett (who argues against this idea)
In going the other way, in trying too hard to be ‘realistic’, honest, gritty or meaningful we end up over-reaching ourselves and the monster eats us anyway.
There. Now I have a definition for ‘gritty’. I’m just going to say it’s the ‘opposite of kitsch’ and be done with it.
Cute and kitsch – Laurie Taylor asks why objects and phenomenon which come under these headings have such a hold and a fascination, from BBC4
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The term camp —normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch , mawkish or corny themes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. A part of the anti-academic defense of popular culture in the sixties , camp came to academic prominence in the eighties with the widespread adoption of the Postmodern views on art and culture.
Today, camp falls into two distinct categories: intentional camp and unintentional camp. Intentional camp, as the name suggests, constitutes the deliberate use of camp for humour. Unintentional camp arises from naïveté or poor quality or tastes. Unintentional camp can thus be considered "true" or "pure" camp. A hipster may appreciate something for its camp value, while a person with unrefined tastes may perceive the same thing to be inherently sophisticated.
Much like the closely related notion of kitsch , camp has traditionally been viewed as hard to define. The terms "camp" and "kitsch" are often used interchangeably, but the term "kitsch" refers spefically to art, music or literature, while "camp" is a much broader term. All things kitsch are also camp, but not all things camp are kitsch. It is easier to grasp the concept of camp through the use of examples than through a definition. Thus, one who is unfamilar with the concept of camp may wish to skip to the numerous examples of camp cited later in this article, before reading about the history of camp and the academic theories concerning camp found towards the beginning of this article.
Camp appears to be most prevalent in societies where disposable income has grown at a much faster pace than the general level of cultural sophistication, awareness and education. The popular culture of the USA during the late 1950s and early '60s (Author Thomas Hine identified it as the period 1954-64) is considered by many to be probably the most camp time period in human history. During this era, the overall average standard of living and the amount of disposable income of the American people rose rapidly and significantly as the post-World War II economy (which was rapidly taking up a great deal of slack from the Depression and World War II ) boomed. Yet, at the same time, many people in that era were somewhat naïve and provincial, with relatively few people having attended college. Aside from WWII veterans, few people had been exposed to other cultures or traveled overseas. In sum, many people suddenly had much more money to spend, but often exercised poor taste due to their lack of sophistication, education or experience.
As the Japanese economy began to boom in the 1970s and 1980s, Japan became a major producer of camp (see Tokusatsu for examples). As in the United States of the 1950s, Japanese disposable income had outpaced the general level of sophistication within Japanese society.
India is in many respects, still a Third World country, but its economy is growing rapidly and many Indians can now afford to buy a television and go to the cinema. And following the pattern set
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