Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman - Hardcover

Grayson Perry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714118206 ISBN 13: 9780714118208

Verlag: British Museum Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The Tomb of an Unknown Craftsman is of a treasure hoard from a distinct civilisation. The difference is that it is a civilisation of one. The territory it springs from is my imagination...The relationship between my personal themes and obsessions and the vastness of world culture as represented in the British Museum is like a narrow pilgrimage trail across an infinite plain., "Grayson Perry" Grayson Perry's centrepiece to this fascinating journey is a major artwork: a metal tomb in the form of a ship, encrusted with reliefs and artistic cargo based on, or actually cast from, objects in the collection of the British Museum. The occupant sails into the afterlife surrounded by the talismans of many faiths and people. This is a memorial to all the anonymous craftsmen that over the centuries have fashioned the man-made wonders of the world, many of which are on display in the Museum., Around the tomb, the other artworks - ceramics, tiles, cast metal sculpture, textiles and prints - are laid out in ritualistic symmetry as if they once belonged somewhere else. Alongside his own works, Grayson Perry presents a personal selection of objects from the British Museum that are the inspiration for his pieces or connected strongly with them thematically or aesthetically. Including an introduction by Grayson Perry and lavishly illustrated, this book takes us to the fantasy world of a contemporary artist who never fails to challenge and unsettle his audience., "Grayson Perry is winner of the 2012 South Bank Sky Arts Award for visual arts, for the British Museum exhibition, "The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman"".

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Críticas:

"Far more than a catalogue of exhibits, packed as it is with playful creative theories and the artist's restless spirit". -Simon Garfield, Top Ten Books with Maps, The Guardian

"This book presents Perry's curious artistic collaboration with [the BM collection]; a clever mix of Perry's own work and objects selected from the British Museum. It forms a tribute to the countless unknown craftsmen who have left behind an array of weird and wonderful goods which we now treasure" --The Bookseller, 2 September 2011

"... a clever mix of Perry's own work and objects selected from the British Museum" -The Bookseller, 2 September 2011

"...Forms a tribute to the countless unknown craftsmen who have left behind an array of weird and wonderful goods which we now treasure"
--The Bookseller, 2 September 2011

Biografía del autor:

Grayson Perry uses the seductive qualities of ceramics, tapestry, metalwork and other art forms to make stealthy comments about societal injustices and hypocrisies, and to explore a variety of historical and contemporary themes. Perry is a great chronicler of contemporary life, drawing us in with wit, affecting sentiment and nostalgia as well as fear and anger. Autobiographical references can be read in tandem with debates about d cor and decorum and the status of the artist versus that of the artisan, debates which Perry turns on their head. He has had major solo exhibitions at Mudam, Luxembourg (2008), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2007), Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2006), Barbican Art Gallery, London (2002) and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2002). He has also curated two exhibitions - Unpopular Culture, de la Warr Pavilion (2008) and The Charms of Lincolnshire, The Collection, Lincoln (2006).

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• Verlag: British Museum Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0714118206
• ISBN 13: 9780714118208
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210