Diary drawings : mental illness and me / Bobby Baker with Dora Whittuck ; introduction by Marina Warner ; photographs by Andrew Whittuck.

  • Baker, Bobby, 1950-
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Description

In 1996 the artist Bobby Baker was diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Her subsequent struggle to overcome severe mental and later physical illness lasted for 11 years. The 158 drawings and watercolours in this book are an astonishing record of her slow and harrowing journey to eventual recovery.

Publication/Creation

London : Profile Books : In association with Wellcome Collection, 2010.

Physical description

222 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes

Contains drawings selected for the exhibition held at the Wellcome Collection in London, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PS.AL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781846683749
  • 1846683742