Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
by Grayson Perry
appears in Art History, Design, and Art.
Grayson Perry?s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about ?art? Now Grayson Perry is a fully paidup 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 thr...
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