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Grayson Perry on contemporary art

Tom Sutcliffe talks to artist Grayson Perry, curator Penelope Curtis, academic Philip Davis and business consultant Nicholas Lovell.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses the role and place of contemporary art in today's global, digital world with the artist Grayson Perry. While the Director of Tate Britain Penelope Curtis looks back to a time when images held such power and caused such outrage that they had to be destroyed, in an exhibition on iconoclasm. Philip Davis offers a defence of the value of reading serious literature. And Nicholas Lovell looks at the money that artists can make, using the internet to change the way they relate to their fans.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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43 minutes

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Mon 14 Oct 2013 21:30

Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry is the artist who won the Turner Prize in 2003.

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The Reith Lectures, Playing to the Gallery, start on Tuesday 15 October at 9.00am on Radio 4.

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Penelope Curtis

Penelope Curtis is the Director of Tate Britain.

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Art under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm is on at Tate Britain until 5 January 2014.

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Philip Davis

Philip Davis is editor of The Reader magazine and Director of the Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems at the University of Liverpool.

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Reading and the Reader is published by Oxford University Press.

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Nicholas Lovell

Nicholas Lovell is an author and games industry consultant.

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The Curve – From Freeloaders into Superfans: The Future of Business is published by Portfolio Penguin.

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Grayson Perry
Interviewed Guest Penelope Curtis
Interviewed Guest Philip Davis
Interviewed Guest Nicholas Lovell
Producer Katy Hickman

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  • Mon 14 Oct 2013 09:00
  • Mon 14 Oct 2013 21:30

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