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very good dust-jacket, cover price $25.00, fresh attractive unused yellow hardcover, slightest rubbing along top edge of cover. PERRY, GRAYSON. Playing to the gallery: helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood. New York: Penguin Books, 2015, 1st printing number line starting with 1, 134pp., . "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 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? Can you be a 'lovable character' and a serious artist--what is a serious artist anyway? And what happens if you place a piece of art in a rubbish dump?" - 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. ISBN 9780143127352.

Soft cover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (29 x 25 cm). In English and Turkish. 91 p., color ills. The works of outstanding contemporary artist and 2003 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry (b. 1960) will be exhibited at Pera Museum, including tapestries, ceramics and prints. Organised in collaboration with the British Council and curated by Linsey Young from the British Council's Visual Arts Team, the exhibition reflects the artist's unrelenting fascination with issues of the everyday, of religion, class, and identity. Well-known for his transvestite alter ego "Claire", Perry's largest single body of work to date, The Vanity of Small Differences, composed of six tapestries from the British Council Collection, will also be exhibited. Though working within the context of contemporary art, Perry remains a practitioner of artisanal crafts and a lover of beauty. He rejects conceptual art as the sole claimant of 'ideas' and champions the decorative and intimate qualities of handmade objects with stories to tell. The ceramic medium that first drew Grayson Perry to craft practice continues to be a critical, and is perhaps the most traditionally beautiful, element of his work. In this exhibition, alongside the series of "The Vanity of Small Differences" the artist's earliest work, a ceramic pot from 2002, the period during which Perry was nominated for the Turner Prize; culminating in a self-portrait, 'A Map of Days,' which was completed in 2014 for a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery are also included. Linsey Young, curator of the exhibition "Small Differences" states that visitors will be able to explore the magnificent interior world of Grayson Perry. Through the complex and physically detailed narratives, the audience can observe motifs, such as planes, shopping centres, churches and temples, mobile telephones and of course the artist's beloved teddy bear, Alan Measles, which appear again and again in many different guises.