Against Interpretation

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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

Against Interpretation

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Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

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The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak.

Susan Sontag

Notes on Camp

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Sontag, Susan. "Notes on 'Camp.'" Partisan Review, Fall 1964.

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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.

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Notes on Camp

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Susan Sontag

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