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'I was thinking what fun it would be to label everybody socially' —Grayson PerryGrayson Perry’s Print for a Politician is a depiction of war. Across the picture plane, rendered in vivid violet, smoke rises from burning buildings, trees are bare of leaves and tanks roll through the disjointed landscape. At over two and a half metres wide, the enormity of Perry’s etching recalls the monumental 19th century paintings of historic battles.
C.J. Grant, The Tailors War! Being a New System of Cutting in the Trade!, c. 1834. Image: Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo Yet rather than focusing on past disputes, Perry’s war is a satirical depiction of the various conflicting groups in contemporary society. Using war as a vehicle to visually convey societal tensions has long been an established device in political satire cartoons, demonstrated above in an illustration about the Tailors’ Strikes of the 1830s. Recalling such imagery, Perry labels the factions of contemporary society in a characteristically tongue-in-cheek fashion and thrusts them together to fight it out in the same arena. Although chaos appears to ensue in the non-linear narrative, Perry made it clear that his underlying intention was to demonstrate that all these differing parts of society can co-exist.
'I made a long list of all the different groups I could think of off the top of my head and scattered them randomly on the surface. There are minimalists, chauvinist pigs, elitists, parents, fat people, townies, locals, the old, Sunnis, Shias, fantasists, working class, thick people, satanists. Everything. It shows that we can live with this difference' —Grayson Perry
Zhang Zeduan, Going Up the River at the Qingming Spring Festival (detail), c. 1100. Image: Werner Forman Archive / Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Perry cited Henry Darger’s imaginary battle scenes as a key influence, along with the panoramic depictions of daily life and major cultural celebrations that can be found in Chinese Scroll paintings. Perry’s print merges these binary events to form an image that acknowledges tensions between distinct factions of society, but ultimately celebrates difference and promotes an ethos of co-existence and peace. Acknowledging the importance of such a message, the House of Commons acquired a version of Print for a Politician for their contemporary art collection in 2006.
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The Paragon Press 2001-2006 pp. 298-299
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《政客版畫（紫羅蘭色）》
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