Editing Notes on "Camp" (section)

==Synopsis==
The essay is structured with a brief introduction, followed by a list of 58 "notes" on what camp is, or might be.

[[Christopher Isherwood]] is mentioned in Sontag's essay: "Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel ''[[The World in the Evening]]'' (1954), [camp] has hardly broken into print."<ref name="NOC-2018" /> In Isherwood's novel two characters are discussing the meaning of camp, both High and Low. Stephen Monk, the protagonist, says:

<blockquote>You thought it meant a swishy little boy with peroxided hair, dressed in a picture hat and a feather boa, pretending to be [[Marlene Dietrich]]?  Yes, in queer circles they call ''that'' camping.  … You can call [it] Low Camp…High Camp is the whole emotional basis for ballet, for example, and of course of baroque art … High Camp always has an underlying seriousness.  You can't camp about something you don't take seriously.  You're not making fun of it, you're making fun out of it.  You're expressing what’s basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance.  Baroque art is basically camp about religion.  The ballet is camp about love …<ref>Isherwood, Christopher. ''The World in the Evening''.  University of Minnesota Press. 2012  p. 10 {{ISBN|9780099561149}}</ref></blockquote>

Then examples are given:  [[Mozart]], [[El Greco]] and [[Dostoevsky]] are camp; [[Beethoven]], [[Flaubert]] and [[Rembrandt]] are not.<ref>Isherwood, Christopher. ''The World in the Evening''.  University of Minnesota Press. 2012 {{ISBN|9780099561149}} p. 10-11</ref>