Playing to the gallery : helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood /

"Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art ... Based on his hugely popular Reith Lectures and full of pictures, this funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that might occur to us in...

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Main Author: Perry, Grayson, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • How much?
  • Democracy has bad taste : what is quality, how might we judge it, whose opinion counts, and does it even matter any more?
  • Beating the bounds : what counts as art? Although we live in a era when anything can be art, not everything qualifies ; Nice rebellion, welcome in! : is art still capable of shocking us or have we seen it all before?
  • I found myself in the art world : how do you become a contemporary artist?
  • The end.