ISBN：9780714118208

书名：Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

作者：Grayson Perry

出版：The British Museum，

装帧：精装，204页

语种：英文

开本：25×28cm

The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman is the accompanying catalogue to the Grayson Perry and the British Museum’s exhibition of the same name.

This intriguing catalogue breathes life into the subject of the award-winning exhibition, first opened at the British Museum in 2011. Celebrated artist and British Museum trustee Grayson Perry takes his readers on a fascinating journey through an imaginary afterlife, covering a range of diverse topics from pilgrimage, shamanism and tomb guardians, using ceramics, tapestry, metalwork and other art forms to make stealthy comments about societal injustices and hypocrisies, and to explore a variety of historical and contemporary themes.

The centrepiece to Turner Prize winner Perry’s exhibition, the titular ‘Tomb’, is an iron sculpture of a ship on which the ‘Craftsman’ may sail into the afterlife. The memorial to all anonymous craftsmen who have created the man-made wonders of the world has made its highly anticipated return to the British Museum in 2020, and can currently be seen on display in Room 17.

Lavishly illustrated with his own work alongside artefacts from the Museum’s collection, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman takes its reader to the fantasy world of a contemporary artist who never fails to challenge and unsettle his audience.