Grayson Perry's first art prize was a large papier-mache head he awarded to himself as part of a performance art project at college in 1980. Since then he has won many other awards, including the Turner Prize in 2003. He is now one of Britain's most celebrated artists and has had major solo exhibitions all over the world.
A visual and intellectual delight
*Time Out*
Punchy, mischievous ... Hugely entertaining. You could, genuinely,
take an aphorism or a quote from every second page ... This is
splendid, transgressive stuff and a delight for the many Radio 4
listeners who responded enthusiastically [to Perry's Reith
Lectures] ... In writing, he seeks to protect the personal in a
deeply caustic art world, but in doing so also writes a love letter
to art ... a thing of pleasure: petite, luxuriously printed, a
mischievous little hymn to 21st-century inclusivity
*The Times*
This book is full of good jokes, full of cartoons, full of
memorable epigrams, but above all full of thought-provoking ideas
that make you want to pause on every page and say: "Discuss." I
have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be
issued as a set text in every school
*Sunday Times*
The book has [a] conversational tone and lively intelligence.
Beautifully illustrated, it reveals Perry to be not just an artist
but a wordsmith, too... This is writing with the eye of someone who
says: 'My job is to notice things that other people don't notice.'
It is full of insight, and of telling points... It is acute and
funny at the same time. This, I think, is why people love Perry so
much. He is really smart. He says the things we wish we had thought
of, and asks the questions that we want to ask. What is art? How
can we tell if what we are looking at is any good? Is it OK to like
certain artists?
*Daily Telegraph*
A joy to read
*New Statesman*
A polemic for inclusivity... The great thing about Perry's
statement of it here is that you are always convinced that he
believes it and lives by it
*Observer*
With great good humour he debunks distinctions between highbrow and
low
*Sunday Times, Books of the Year*
It's unputdownable! It's really relevant to anyone who does
anything ... A great book ... Grayson is brilliant
*Stewart Lee*
An unpretentious aesthetic treatise
*Observer, Books of the Year*
Perry's fun and wonderful book is a necessary addition to a world
that must continue to ask difficult questions of art
*Publishers Weekly*
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