Grayson Perry
The Vanity of Small Differences
Author: Caroline Douglas, Suzanne Moore, Grayson Perry and Adam Lowe
An essential companion to one of the key contemporary art works of the last decade, Grayson Perry's series of tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences.
Published on the occasion of the 2013 UK touring exhibition, 'The Vanity of Small Differences', organised by the Arts Council Collection.
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An essential companion to one of the key contemporary art works of the last decade, Grayson Perry's series of tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences.
Published on the occasion of the 2013 UK touring exhibition, 'The Vanity of Small Differences', organised by the Arts Council Collection.
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An essential companion to one of the key contemporary art works of the last decade, Grayson Perry's series of tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences.
Telling a story of class and taste, aspiration and identity, tapestry series The Vanity of Small Differences saw Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry travel the length and breadth of the UK, 'on safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain'. In his BAFTA award winning three-part documentary series All in the Best Possible Taste (Channel 4), Perry explores the 'emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive.'
The Vanity of Small Differences is the beautiful publication, covered with real cloth, accompanying the Hayward Touring exhibition with the same name. The book features Perry's six vibrant and highly detailed tapestries bearing the influence both of early Renaissance painting and of William Hogarth's moralising series, literally weaving characters, incidents and objects from the artist's research into a modern day version of Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1733).
With an inventive and elegant design from Pony Ltd, this fascinating publication includes an extensive array of full-colour reproductions of Perry's tapestries, complete with photos of the artist's sketches and preparatory material for the tapestries themselves.
Journalist Suzanne Moore (Guardian, Mail on Sunday) contributes to the book with an incisive, moving and highly personal reflection on questions of class, taste and their relative values. Also featuring a new text by Grayson Perry, alongside extensive commentary on each of the tapestries, while curator Adam Lowe's essay explores the process of their making and their place in the digital age, The Vanity of Small Differences is an essential guide to the work of one of Britain's best-loved artists.
About the Author
SUZANNE MOORE is part of the BLUE MOUNTAIN ARTSA(R) COLLECTION writing team in Boulder, Colorado. The team is dedicated to the mission statement of Blue Mountain ArtsA(R) founders and worldwide visionaries Steven Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz: Help people communicate their feelings.
Telling a story of class and taste, aspiration and identity, the tapestry series The Vanity of Small Differences by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry (born 1960) was conceived up and down the length and breadth of the U.K., as Perry traveled for Channel 4 television "on safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain." The result is a monumental exploration of the "emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive." The six vibrant and highly detailed tapestries presented here bear the influence both of early Renaissance painting and of William Hogarth's "modern moral subjects," literally weaving characters, incidents and objects from Perry's research into a modern-day version of Hogarth's famous A Rake's Progress . This book is an essential companion to one of the key contemporary art works of the last decade.
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