Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

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How much? -- Democracy has bad taste : what is quality, how might we judge it, whose opinion counts, and does it even matter any more? -- Beating the bounds : what counts as art? Although we live in a era when anything can be art, not everything qualifies ; Nice rebellion, welcome in! : is art still capable of shocking us or have we seen it all before? -- I found myself in the art world : how do you become a contemporary artist? -- The end.;Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art" Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that might occur to us in an art gallery but that we're too embarrassed to ask. Questions such as: What is "good" or "bad" art'and does it even matter' Is art still capable of shocking us or have we seen it all before' And what happens if you place apiece of art in a rubbish dump'