What is the Camp that explores the MET and why is it so necessary in 2019
Where is the origin of the Camp? The essayist draws a dividing line in the middle of the 18th century, although she also alludes to the end of the 17th century and in the United Kingdom, to all the aesthetics of the 19th century. Due to the degree of artifice and the role it played in turning France into the cradle of fashion, Louis XIV and Versailles play a fundamental role in the exhibition, where some of his paintings will converse with a suit from the Chanel Fall 1987 collection. inspired by Atys, Jean Baptiste Lully's pastoral opera that premiered in 1676 at the court of the Sun King.
“Camp is the spirit of extravagance”
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On the death of Louis XIV, the Rococo style flourished, characterized by excess. The own court clothing of the s. XVIII was conceived as an architectural construction made of fabric. They used enormous hollow skirts with mammoth structures or aprons that served only as decoration. Opulence peaked (and never better said) around 1770. In addition to fashion dealers who sold bows and other accessories to adorn a person from head to toe, hairdressers became absolutely important: hairstyles and wigs reached disproportionate heights and they incorporated details that took the excess to its ultimate consequences. An example? The victory over England of the French frigate La Belle Poule in 1778 inspired women's hairstyles that placed miniature replicas of warships on the head. “What is Camp? Only one's hairdresser knows for sure,” historian Gregory Bredbeck suggested. The hairstyle itself could also serve as a starting point to describe the last champions of masculine extravagance before the "Great Renunciation" that dyed the clothing of the men of the s rigorous black. XIX. All of them, moreover, coincide in the space-time line that Susan Sontag drew to define the Camp.
