UNPOPULAR CULTURE : GRAYSON PERRY SELECTS FROM THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION (SIGNED)

GRAYSON PERRY

ISBN 10: 1853322679 / ISBN 13: 9781853322679

Published by Hayward Publishing,, London,, 2008

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Issued Without D/W. 4to.20 x 24cm. pp 100. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Original textured publisher's yellow cloth with b/w photo of Perry onset to cover and lettered blue on spine and on front cover. Signed presentation from the artist 'To David, Grayson Perry.' Loosely inserted an attractive 8 by 6 inch colour photograph of Grayson Perry dressed as a woman standing outside the De La Warr pavilion. Dated 11 May 2008 with note at rear by someone who was at the opening / private view. Fine hardback exhibition catalogue for a touring exhibition beginning at the De La Warr Pavilion 10 May 2008, Bexhill curated by Grayson Perry, selecting from the Arts Council Collection featuring figurative painting, bronze sculpture and documentary photography from the post-war period until c.1980.

Seller Inventory # C100244

Bibliographic Details

• Title: UNPOPULAR CULTURE : GRAYSON PERRY SELECTS FROM THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Hayward Publishing,, London,
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853322679
• ISBN 13: 9781853322679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes

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Synopsis

Unpopular Culture features paintings, sculpture, and photographs selected from the Arts Council Collection by artist Grayson Perry. The selection presents a personal view of post-war British art, and provides an investigation of the mood, pace and preoccupations that underlie the period.

Synopsis

For over a year, Perry has researched the Arts Council Collection's holdings. Unsurprisingly for an artist who has always positioned himself on the margins of the art world, the 'tranny potter from Essex' has found himself drawn to art made 'before British art became fashionable'. He favours an art that conveys a sense of tradition, restraint and quiet accomplishment - a selection featuring modern British paintings, sculpture and photographs that embody a certain nostalgia, while exploring notions of place and environment, issues of identity and class, ideas about form. Rather than retreat into a world of rose-tinted romanticism, Perry presents an alternative view of British art, one that reassesses the relationship between past and present, and questions the boundaries between the radical, the conservative, and the radically conservative.Conventional assessments of post-war British art tend to pursue a standard art historical path with a strong scholarly focus."Unpopular Culture" seeks an alternative view, one that moves away from facts, dates and movements and towards a more subtle investigation of the mood, pace and preoccupations that underline British art of this period.

About 70 works from the Arts Council Collection will be illustrated - painting, sculpture and black and white photography.