camp

Feeling word · 8 styles

A serious subject handled lightly. Orderly composition, misplaced detail, plastic laminate; edges off; mid-high arousal. Of radical decoration, clashing colour.

Styles

• Dada
• Dada Zurich
• Dada
• The Incoherents
• Posada Calavera Engravings
• Memphis Design
• Letterpress Broadside
• Memphis Record Sleeve

Co-occurs with

• dissonance
• irony
• disorder
• satire
• the absurd
• appropriation
• gallows humour
• nonsense
• bricolage
• meaninglessness
• the bizarre
• strikethrough

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