Sontag wrote her groundbreaking essay in 1963. In 58 paragraphs, she conducted an intuitive yet rigorous examination of a phenomenon that she defined as "a badge of identity among small urban cliques". And this "private code" constituted a new mode of perception that collapsed traditional ideas of high and low culture, of elitism and mass […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03PM on May 10, 2019