Synopses & Reviews
Grayson Perrys book will overturn everything you thought you knew about art” Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason hes called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that might occur to us in an art gallery but that were too embarrassed to ask. Questions such as: What is good” or bad” artand does it even matter? Is art still capable of shocking us or have we seen it all before? And what happens if you place apiece of art in a rubbish dump?
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Praise for
Playing to the Gallery:
“Hugely entertaining...delightfully non-elitist...[Playing to the Gallery is] a thing of pleasure: petite, luxuriously printed, a mischievous little hymn to 21st-century inclusivity.”—The Times (UK)
“Full of thought-provoking ideas that make you want to pause on every page and say: ‘Discuss. I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be issued as a set text in every school.”—The Sunday Times (UK)
“Acute and funny at the same time....[Playing to the Gallery has a] conversational tone and lively intelligence.”—The Telegraph (UK)
About the Author
GRAYSON PERRY is a celebrated artist and winner of the Turner Prize. He has had major solo exhibitions at the British Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. He won a BAFTA in 2013 for his documentary All in the Best Possible Taste.