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Playing to the Gallery Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 a piece of art in a rubbish dump?

About the Publisher

Penguin Books

The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.

Book information

ISBN: 9780143132387
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 709.05
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 134
Weight: 245g
Height: 211mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 13mm