'Camp aesthetics delights in impertinence.' Camp opposes satisfaction and seeks to challenge. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. Ĭamp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and pantomime.

Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption. Ostentatious style (late 19th century - current)Ĭamp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value.