Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry Selects from the Arts Council Collection - Hardcover

Grayson, Perry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853322679 ISBN 13: 9781853322679

Verlag: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 1999

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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.

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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.

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• Verlag: Hayward Gallery Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1853322679
• ISBN 13: 9781853322679
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 98