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Grayson Perry : my pretty little art career /

Contributor(s): Publisher: The Rocks, NSW : Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, [2016]Description: 257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781921034787
  • 1921034785
Other title:
  • My pretty little art career
Contained works:
  • Perry, Grayson, 1960- Works. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NK4210.P459 A4 2016
Contents:
Introduction / Mike Baird, Elizabeth Ann MacGregor -- Stockings & stealth bombs: Grayson Perry's subversive art / Rachel Kent -- My pretty little art career / Grayson Perry -- Shards & barbs: a potted history of my friendship with Grayson Perry / Louisa Buck -- Who is Grayson Perry? / Julian Baggini -- The world of transvestism: Vol. 14, No. 4.
Summary: The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is pleased to present the first major survey exhibition in the Southern hemisphere by internationally renowned artist and Turner Prize recipient, Grayson Perry, as part of the Sydney International Art Series. Grayson Perry is one of the best known British artists of his generation, acclaimed for his ceramics, sculptures, drawings, prints and tapestries. With a keen eye for detail and a love of the popular and vernacular, Perry infuses his artworks with a sly humour and reflection on society past and present. The artist's highly decorated pots in particular reveal a panoply of imagery ranging from the highly personal to the political, their subjects including his own family, the art world, Biblical stories, the royal family, and images of warfare and sexual fantasy. Perry's transvestism and feminine alter ego 'Claire' emerges through his practice as a recurring visual motif. A contemporary of the YBA (Young British Artists) generation, he has forged a distinctive career that sits apart from the cooler theoretical approach of some of his peers, favouring a more flamboyant, accessible aesthetic that blurs the division of high art and popular culture. Curated by MCA Chief Curator Rachel Kent.--MCA website.
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Essays by Grayson Perry, Louisa Buck, Julian Baggini.

Issued in a decorated slipcase with scalloped edge.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held December 10, 2015-May 1, 2016, at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-252).

Introduction / Mike Baird, Elizabeth Ann MacGregor -- Stockings & stealth bombs: Grayson Perry's subversive art / Rachel Kent -- My pretty little art career / Grayson Perry -- Shards & barbs: a potted history of my friendship with Grayson Perry / Louisa Buck -- Who is Grayson Perry? / Julian Baggini -- The world of transvestism: Vol. 14, No. 4.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is pleased to present the first major survey exhibition in the Southern hemisphere by internationally renowned artist and Turner Prize recipient, Grayson Perry, as part of the Sydney International Art Series. Grayson Perry is one of the best known British artists of his generation, acclaimed for his ceramics, sculptures, drawings, prints and tapestries. With a keen eye for detail and a love of the popular and vernacular, Perry infuses his artworks with a sly humour and reflection on society past and present. The artist's highly decorated pots in particular reveal a panoply of imagery ranging from the highly personal to the political, their subjects including his own family, the art world, Biblical stories, the royal family, and images of warfare and sexual fantasy. Perry's transvestism and feminine alter ego 'Claire' emerges through his practice as a recurring visual motif. A contemporary of the YBA (Young British Artists) generation, he has forged a distinctive career that sits apart from the cooler theoretical approach of some of his peers, favouring a more flamboyant, accessible aesthetic that blurs the division of high art and popular culture. Curated by MCA Chief Curator Rachel Kent.--MCA website.

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