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2010Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me features all 158 drawings from Bobby Baker's touring exhibition. The drawings are an astonishing record of Bobby's slow journey from mental and physicial illness to eventual recovery. Moving, shocking and unexpectedly hilarious in turn, they reveal both the stark realities of living with mental illness and society's lack of understanding. With an introductory essay by Marina Warner, and essays by Bobby and by her daughter Dora Whittuck, qualified clinical psychologist, this book is a rich, rewarding visual experience and a fascinating insight into the interplay between art, mental health and society. Bobby Baker |
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2008Bobby Baker's Bumper Package consists of the book Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life, edited by Michèle Barrett and Bobby Baker and a series of nine DVDs of past and current shows.
REDEEMING FEATURES OF DAILY LIFE“Performance artist and painter Bobby Baker has daringly confronted the fragilities and pleasure of human existence with challenging honesty. In a powerful feminist tradition of speaking herself - speaking her own truth - she has ranged from hilarity to the deepest pathos. Her vision, sometimes excruciating, has produced a singular and profoundly important body of art work about the struggle and the joys of living.” Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds “Finally, a book on Bobby Baker! Here is an important artist -- important to visual art, to performance art, to culinary art, to frank and brave art. Here is a book essential for anyone invested in questions of mental health, feminism, hilarity, pain, everyday life on the planet, and the crushing honesty of the banal detail. Here, too, is a beautiful book, full of images and insights, smartness and hope.” Rebecca Schneider, Brown University Bobby Baker is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular performance artists working today. This fully-illustrated book brings together for the first time an account of Baker's career as an artist with critical commentary by reviewers and academic practitioners. It includes: - Bobby Baker's own 'Chronicle' of her work as artist and performer Under the guiding editorial hand of distinguished cultural theorist Michèle Barrett, this volume is a hugely absorbing and accessible account of Baker's work and an essential text for students interested in performance, gender and visual culture. Edited by Michèle Barrett | Bobby Baker |
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