Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth by George Melly, Philip Core

Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth

George Melly, Philip Core

256 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ reflective medium-paced
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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 i...

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