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Grayson Perry -- Polymorphous Political Potter

Started by Natasha, December 11, 2008, 05:39:30 PM

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December 11, 2008, 05:39:30 PM
Grayson Perry -- Polymorphous Political Potter

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/grayson_perry_--_polymorphous_political.php
Patricia Nell Warren
December 11, 2008 3:30 PM

While the activists do their thing, the creative people continue to do theirs. Filmmakers make films, authors write books, painters paint...and British ->-bleeped-<- potter Grayson Perry makes pots. But these are not your typical high-art pots that make an elegant but neutral design statement on a spotlit stand in some Architectural Digest living room.

Grayson's giant urns jump off their stands at you. Each is covered with a welter of rude and disturbing images that dig deep into contemporary pop culture -- everything from childhood terrors about traditional religion to tabloid icons and scary news events. Grayson has taken that inoffensive, non-political thing called "ceramics" and made it political, offensive and controversial.
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