Thoughts on Camp
"I love it."
Each and every work of art longs to be loved by someone.
Art looks back at the looker: “I don't think you're my type.”
Kitsch is a lucky find deemed worthy of care by the finder.
Kitsch finds you.
Curator-ship is a term for the loving collection of anything.
A collection is a family of things with common features.
Kitsch is sympathy for mediocrity.
Kitsch must be worthless to be worthy of care. It's a weakness, sentimentality.
"Swag" is a synonym for Kitsch. Fashion is consumer culture. Fine art is also "swag" -but it's not “consumerist.” The best Kitsch is fine art.
Corn-ography
An obscenity quoted is still an obscenity.
Winckelmann was terrified upon being shown the Alps. Nature is sublime. Art is like a comfortable chair (Matisse).
Hellenistic Greek statuary (and its imitation) is an imposture. It flatters a certain type of viewer, as Idealism flatters a certain type of thinker.
Neoclassical statuary looks like a balloon. It is a good example of (what Roman philosophers called) pneuma.
L'homme de confiance Bernard Buffet's art is bad -but Paris is in denial about him. It owns him, it cannot dis-own him, because he is one of them.
All art is Kitsch -but not all Kitsch is art.
Compulsive buyer: “I can't help myself. I like it.”
Making a necessity of desire: “I need this.”
“Let it out!” -is not inspired, but expired.
Vice is a taste for forbidden fruit.
Take into account the added value peculiar to stolen things.
“The banality of evil” (Arendt) is crime without passion.
In defense of banality: While it lacks passion, it is not evil in itself.