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The Toy of the Spirit

By Anthony Mannix
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The Toy of the Spirit presents three years of Anthony Mannix's hand-written artist books, offering a rare glimpse into his lived experience of schizophrenia. The work explores the creativity and value found within madness, blending humour, poetry, diary entries, images, and philosophical musings. Mannix portrays himself as an anthropologist of the unconscious, presenting a visionary and deeply personal journey through altered mental landscapes.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in arts and culture, mental health, experimental literature, and explorations of creativity within altered states of mind.

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Material is drawn from his 3-year practice of creating hand-written artist books and is the first time it has been widely available to the public. Mannix's work centres on the documentation and investigation of his experiences of schizophrenia and, what is for him, madness' implicit creativity and value.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Material is drawn from his 3-year practice of creating hand-written artist books and is the first time it has been widely available to the public. Mannix's work centres on the documentation and investigation of his experiences of schizophrenia and, what is for him, madness' implicit creativity and value.

Mannix's texts range widely in approach, employing humour and poetry, diaristic reflection, images, heartfelt emotion, anthropological cataloguing, description and explanation. By turns visionary, philosophical, experimental and erotic, Mannix's writing, in all its varied manifestations, explores any unconscious worlds. He is, as he suggests, an anthropologist of the unconscious.

[His work] opened, with some surprise, the eyes and minds of all those who visited a very different world—one of madness and obsessive creativity, shocking and yet very exciting. - Carolynne Skinner, Oz Arts Magazine

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925780284

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 November 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 239

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Anthony Mannix Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

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