Visual Diary as Prosthetic Practice in Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3805168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Watson (0000-0003-3972-3006, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-44 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2012.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2156717169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
British performance artist Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings , created over a decade during a struggle with mental illness for which she was institutionalized forty-one times, explores and images aspects of self-experience that have been marginalized in the humanist tradition of autobiography. Refracting her self-portraits through various forms of the inhuman-animal, vegetative, machine-she develops a tropology of visual images that "unmirror" self-representation in the violence of self-misrecognition. Her refl ections on her own process chart a posthuman prosthetic practice that does not therapeutically reincorporate her to the human, but generates a culminating self-portrait as an ahuman landscape of the self
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biography · Humanism · Literature · Politics · Portrait · Self · Visual arts · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |