Understood Marsha. In fact there has been a media "backlash" against Perry since his rise to Reith lecture fame. He's become what we call euphemistically in little-old-UK a "national treasure" - someone we all love and defend for no obvious reason at the present time.
Like you I think what he says is enlightened, by the wisdom of experience, even (especially) when it's not shockingly original (part of his point of course). Ian On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:04 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > I had no expectations, so just enjoyed Perry talking about art. While he was > quite humorous, underneath he was quite insightful. The reference to ZAMM > was in the Q&A. Thanks for announcing the lectures. > > > Marsha > > > > > >> On Dec 3, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Well, I didn't notice that Marsha, >> >> By the time I got to the 4th lecture, I must have been flagging. I >> blogged notes about the first three, but got side-tracked by day-job >> pressures by the time I got to the fourth. I found the whole series >> credible and sensible, but the art critical press found it all too >> boring - not earth-shatteringly anti-establishment enough - so >> positive public media comment dropped off very quickly after the final >> lecture. >> >> I must listen again. >> Ian >> >>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 7:13 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I just finished the fourth and final lecture by Grayson Perry. Lo and >>> behold, Perry mentions and "paraphrases" a quote (stated as a favorite of >>> his) from ZAMM. Bravo for the lectures and his good taste in quotes. >>> >>> >>> Marsha >>> Moq_Discuss mailing list >>> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >>> Archives: >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >>> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
