Product Description: Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry gives the 2013 Reith Lectures, presented by Sue Lawley. Marcel Duchamp famously declared that a urinal was a work of art. It sometimes seems that anything qualifies, from a pile of sweets on a gallery floor to an Oscar-winning actress asleep in a box...read more

Product Description: Since winning the Turner Prize in 2003, the celebrated transvestite potter Grayson Perry (born 1960) has become something of a national institution in the U.K. In 1992, some while before he became known, Atlas Press published Perry’s sole graphic novel, Cycle of Violence, the nightmarish tale of a young cyclist and transvestite, now reprinted in a handsome hardcover edition...read more

Product Description: Flying in the face of the good taste so amply displayed in the "little world of ceramics" that he detests, Grayson Perry's pots are shocking and thematically controversial. With their scratched-in surfaces that feature colored images ranging from quintessentially English floral patterns to transvestities to sexual and violent scenes, Perry's work tackles guilt and innocence, perversion and hypocrisy, aggression and violence, sexuality and gender--a far cry from the subject matters usually dealt with in the British arts and crafts world...read more