Bobby Baker

<p>Bobby Baker is one of most widely acclaimed and popular performance artists working today. Over the course of a thirty-five-year career she has toured the globe with her wildly stimulating explorations of 'Daily Life' and has been extensively written about and studied.</p><p>This fully-illustrated book brings together for the first time an account of Baker's career as an artist – from her first sculptures at Central St Martins in the early 1970s to her most recent work 'How to Live' and 'Diary Drawings' – with critical commentary by reviewers and academic practitioners.</p><p>It includes:</p><ul> <li>Bobby Baker's own 'Chronicle' of her work as artist and performer</li> <li>illuminating critical writing about Baker's shows </li> <li>transcripts of Baker's performances and other original materials reproduced here for the first time</li> <li>significant new essays by Michele Barrett and Griselda Pollock</li> <li>a new interview with Bobby Baker by Adrian Heathfield.</li> </ul><p>Under the guiding editorial hand of distinguished cultural theorist Michèle Barrett this volume is an essential text for students interested in performance gender and visual culture and a hugely absorbing and accessible account of Baker's work.</p>