Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth

Philip Core; George Melly

ISBN 10: 0933328834 / ISBN 13: 9780933328839

Published by Putnam Pub Group, 1984

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Very Good stiff glossy paper wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight, contents clean and unmarked. 216 pages. Includes bibliography. Remainder mark top page edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth
• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0933328834
• ISBN 13: 9780933328839
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Used: Very Good
• Weight: 19 ounces
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Synopsis

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 savagely witty depicts 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 rare and stunning photographs and a vivacious foreword by England's foremost authority on surrealism, eccentric behaviour and hats - jazz singer George Melly.