Grayson Perry has become a somewhat unlikely interrogator and investigator of class and masculinity leading to a series of publications and TV shows. The Vanity of Small Differences harks back his 2012 take on the Rake’s Progress through a series of six tapestries. “The tapestries tell the story of class mobility, for I think nothing has as strong an influence on our aesthetic taste as the social class in which we grow up. I am interested in the politics of consumerism and the story of popular design but, for this project, I focus on the emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive. Class and taste run deep in our character – we care. This emotional charge is what draws me to a subject,” says Perry. On a side note, his word of 2017 was Diaphobia which is the fear of being influenced by other people. Be open to his influence.
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