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Tag: Coronation Street

Camp on the Cobbles: Sontag, Campness and Coronation Street

30th July 202110th August 2021  Rebecca Savage

The 2019 Met Gala took inspiration from Susan Sontag’s renowned essay, ‘Notes on Camp’, but what of the less glamorous, closer-to-home forms of Sontagion camp? Here, Rebecca Savage looks at the queer origins of Coronation Street, its campy costumes and flamboyant characters.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Bet Lynch, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Coronation Street, Notes on Camp, Rebecca Savage, Susan Sontag

Camp: Notes on Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

30th June 201930th July 2021  Georgia Good

Following its grand opening at the Met Gala, the exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion explores the concept of ‘camp’ through a Sontagion lens and reveals its cultural, political and social significance today, writes our contributor Georgia Good.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, FashionTagged: Alessandro Michele, Andrew Bolton, Andy Warhol, Aubrey Beardsley, Balenciaga, Camp, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Caravaggio, Christopher Isherwood, Coronation Street, Johan Zoffany, Louis XIV, Mannerism, Met Gala, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Notes on Camp, Oscar Wilde, Pre-Raphaelite, Rosso, Salvatore Ferragamo, Susan Sontag, Swan Lake, The Costume Institute, Yves Saint Laurent
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