Playing to the Gallery
  • Published: 30 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141979618
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.00

Playing to the Gallery

Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood

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30 May 2016
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Grayson Perry's irreverent, acclaimed look at the art world, now published in paperback

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 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.
  • Published: 30 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141979618
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.00
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Perry Grayson

Grayson Perry is one of the most popular artists in Britain today. His first art prize was a large papier-mâché head he awarded to himself as part of a performance art project at college. Since then he has won many other awards, including the Turner Prize in 2003, and has had major solo exhibitions all over the world. His book Playing to the Gallery is based on his acclaimed BBC Reith Lectures.

Praise for Playing to the Gallery

This book is full of good jokes, full of cartoons, full of memorable epigrams, but above all full of thought-provoking ideas that make you want to pause on every page and say: "Discuss." I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be issued as a set text in every school

Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

A visual and intellectual delight

Time Out

Punchy, mischievous ... Hugely entertaining. You could, genuinely, take an aphorism or a quote from every second page ... This is splendid, transgressive stuff ... a love letter to art ... a thing of pleasure: petite, luxuriously printed, a mischievous little hymn to 21st-century inclusivity

Melanie Reid, The Times

It reveals Perry to be not just an artist but a wordsmith, too... It is acute and funny at the same time. This, I think, is why people love Perry so much.

Daily Telegraph

A joy to read

New Statesman

A polemic for inclusivity... The great thing about Perry's statement of it here is that you are always convinced that he believes it and lives by it

Observer

It's unputdownable! It's really relevant to anyone who does anything ... A great book ... Grayson is brilliant

Stewart Lee