Playing to the Gallery

Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood

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Playing to the Gallery

By: Grayson Perry

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'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

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 an Academic Elite'). Based on his hugely popular BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures and full of pictures, this funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that might occur to us in an art gallery but seem too embarrassing to ask.

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A brief insightful and humerous exploration of the art world. loved it. Only complaint is wasn't long enough, though Grayson Perry goes at such a pace will be listening to it again as missed bits the first time.