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En morsom bok for alle som er interessert i, men ikke nødvendigvis har så mye greie på moderne kunst. Eller som undertittelen sier "Helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood".

Her diskuteres popularitet:

I feel like the art world has a pretty tense relationship with popularity (s.9). The artist does not need the public to think his work is any good if they are not paying his wages or boosting his self-esteem (s.10).

Kunstomtaler:

'International Art English' rebukes ordinary English for its lack of nouns. Visual becomes visuality. Global becomes globality. Potential becomes potentiality. And experience of course becomes experienceability. They describe the metaphysical seasickness you get from reading this sort of text, where it all sounds a bit like inexpertly translated French (s.33).

Kunstens historie:

The Romans were snobbish about what constituted the honourable arts, like rhetoric or music, and the dishonourable arts, where they put sculpture and painting because they involved a lot of mess and hard work (s. 45).

Og hva som er som er moderne kunst:

How to tell if a photograph is art? In the 1990s you could tell it was art photography because no one was smiling. But the main reason you could tell these photographs were art was that they were huge. I asked Martin Parr, the very famous and brilliant photographer, if he could give me a definition of an art photo as opposed to another kind of photo, "Well, if it's bigger than two meters and it's priced higher than five figures" (s. 64).

Grayson Perry er selv kunstner, og har skrevet en veldig underholdene bok som anbefales alle som har lyst til å lese en morsom diskusjon om moderne kunst.