Mailer On Scatological Art

[Jeffrey St. Clair]

"Camp would have moved on to the Happy Hunting Ground of the old art
movement. A new art movement would be in. It would be called Shit.  Its
test would be: is this object, happening, work, event or production more
resonant than it was yesterday? Movies about the Strategic Air Command
with Jimmy Stewart, Hubert Humphrey speeches, old Lawrence Welk records,
interviews with Mayor Wagner, Senate testimony by Robert McNamara,
interviews with J. Edgar Hoover--these would the artifacts of the new
art movement--Camp was out and Shit was in."

--Mailer, "A Speech at Berkeley on Vietnam Day" May 25, 1965