Summary
Turner Prize-winning artist and frock-wearing, mountain-biking dad of one Grayson Perry explores contemporary masculinity from his own unique perspective, spending time in different ultra-male worlds
Grayson Perry: All Man
- Season 1
Episode 3: Rational Man
Summary
Eighty-four per cent of senior City bankers are men. Is banking still testosterone-fuelled, even after the 2008 crash? And how will City workers react to the art that they inspire Grayson to create?
Review
Perry’s penetrating look at what makes men men concludes in suitably, er, phallic form. We’re in the City of London, with its skyscraper monuments to masculinity (Perry is more pithy: he calls them “great big glass c****”). The trouble is, finance is the toughest TV nut to crack because (a) people mostly sit at computer screens and (b) its big beasts try hard, as one hedge-fund manager puts it, “to be the wizard of Oz, to be hidden behind a cloak of secrecy”. Perry peers behind the curtain and has some fascinating encounters, then produces artworks that his subjects don’t entirely appreciate.
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Rational Man
Summary
Eighty-four per cent of senior City bankers are men. Is banking still testosterone-fuelled, even after the 2008 crash? And how will City workers react to the art that they inspire Grayson to create?Review
Perry’s penetrating look at what makes men men concludes in suitably, er, phallic form. We’re in the City of London, with its skyscraper monuments to masculinity (Perry is more pithy: he calls them “great big glass c****”). The trouble is, finance is the toughest TV nut to crack because (a) people mostly sit at computer screens and (b) its big beasts try hard, as one hedge-fund manager puts it, “to be the wizard of Oz, to be hidden behind a cloak of secrecy”. Perry peers behind the curtain and has some fascinating encounters, then produces artworks that his subjects don’t entirely appreciate.
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