Playing to the Gallery

Posted on 10 January 2019 by Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry s 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 he s 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 we re too embarrassed to ask Questions such as What is good or bad art and 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 Download Playing to the Gallery author Grayson Perry – kino-fada.fr I am a Grayson Perry fan on various counts his work as an artist, his role as commentator on the contemporary art scene, and I love the joy and humour in the dresses and wonderful shoes he so often wears Photograph by Richard Ansett, 2013 Grayson Perry Comfort Blanket Grayson Perry The Ashford HijabThis book a commentary on contemporary art and what it means has received outstanding praise from all quarters For me though, there were a few ideas that I couldn t get my head I am a Grayson Perry fan on various counts his work as an artist, his role as commentator on the contemporary art scene, and I love the joy and humour in the dresses and wonderful shoes he so often wears Photograph by Richard Ansett, 2013 Grayson Perry Comfort Blanket Grayson Perry The Ashford HijabThis book a commentary on contemporary art and what it means has received outstanding praise from all quarters For me though, there were a few ideas that I couldn t get my head around This may be because it was a bedtime read, and I didn t have the e...I remember the first time I saw a pot by Grayson Perry It was at an RA Summer Exhibition I had two works exhibited and went to the preview where I saw this brilliant work I didn t know then anything about Grayson Perry, but I knew I was looking at something exceptional Ever since then I have been an ardent admirer of Grayson and his work I recently read the Grayson Perry biography and greatly enjoyed that, and this book was a Christmas present, which with enormous guilt, I have only just I remember the first time I saw a pot by Grayson Perry It was at an RA Summer Exhibition I had two works exhibited and went to the preview where I saw this brilliant work I didn t know then anything about Grayson Perry, but I knew I was looking at something exceptional Ever since then I have been an ardent admirer of Grayson and his work I recently read the Grayson Perry biography and greatly enjoyed that, and this book was a Christmas present, which wit...An artwork is a candidate for contemplation or appreciation George Dickie philosopher Art is expressing one s universal wound the wound of living a finite life of incomplete meanings Raymond Tallis clinical neuroscientist The metaphor that best describes what it s like for my practice as an artist is that of a refuge, a place inside my head where I can go on my own and process the world and its complexities It s an inner shed in which I can lose myself Grayson PerryI don t know An artwork is a candidate for contemplation or appreciation George Dickie philosopher Art is expressing one s universal wound the...Based upon the radio 4 series Reith Lecture i think Pure polemic , Perry is a fabulous guide , he is playful , funny , analytical and opinionated Parry questions art and the viewer he takes you around art , gives some art history and lots of funny and very clear opinions...Thank goodness for Grayson Perry A cheerful, authoritative voice speaking sense and allowing a keen but limited in knowledge and understanding of the visual arts observer like myself to get an up to date picture of the contemporary art world I first encountered these ideas on his Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 For a few weeks I arranged meetings and work schedules to allow me to be driving while these were on He s the first person since the late Robert Hughes to make me feel comfortable in Thank goodness for Grayson Perry A cheerful, authoritative voice speaking sense and allowing a keen but limited in knowledge and understanding of the visual arts observer like myself to get an up to date picture of the contemporary art world I first encountered these ideas on his Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 For a few weeks I arranged meetings and work schedules ...Grayson Perry talks about art and the art world with a love and lack of pretension that is inspiring, informative and very funny.I honestly had never heard of Grayson Perry before The cover caught my attention, and the subject sounded interesting, so I decided to give it a go I m mildly intrigued by the brief references to his own art that he makes during the course of the book the references, I mean, though I m sure he made art as well Anyway, I ll be keeping an eye out forof his work, prose or otherwise So what this is is a book that attempts to demystify the art world Over the last hundred years or so, Art I honestly had never heard of Grayson Perry before The cover caught my attention, and the subject sounded interesting, so I decided to give it a go I m mildly intrigued by the brief references to his own art that he makes during the course of the book the references, I mean, though I m sure he made art as well Anyway, I ll be keeping an eye out forof his work, prose or otherwise So what this is is a book that attempts to demystify the art world Over the last hundred years or so, Art with a capital A has gone in some increasingly bizarre directions, as has, necessarily, the language used by critics Perry wrote this book, Based on his hugely popular Reith Lectures, as a sort of Art Appreciation 101 for the average person Some of his references to art history may be lost on those not already familiar with it, but he generally makes his points with good humor and fairly clear explanations He takes a friendly, chatty approach to the topic which I found very refreshing This was a short but enjoyable bo...accessible and funny commentary on the art worldThis book let me dive back into the contemporary art world for a hot minute.Reading this little, but higly informational book with its funny illustrations,felt like I have just had a good chat over a coffee with Grayson Perry himself Brilliant, without any need of International Art English other than explaining its origin and a good example of how y...

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10 January 2019

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