Imma maddox (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 150 copies. "Mister Tate this is Imma / What does one do to hang a picture in your gallery?" "I am a Maudsley babe," wrote Imma Maddox in "Schizzy", extracts from an unpublished memoir printed in Poetry Express 18 (2003). "After a breakdown at Oxford [where she was reading PPE] in 1974-5, I ended up at the Villa in the Maudsley Hospital. In Occupational Therapy I made a ball-gown to wear at the May Ball at Oxford. By the time I got back to Oxford I had grown a good six sizes bigger because of the medication. I never went to a May Ball." Imma Maddox was born Joanna Maddox in 1955, the daughter of (Sir) John Maddox, future Editor of Nature (1966-75, 1980-95), and his first wife Nancy, who died in 1960. Her cool realisation of her predicament as a schizophrenic, and her difficulties in performing as an artist in the conventional world, is immediately disarming. Helped notably by Sister Benedicta of All Saints' Convent, Oxford, and Sister Dorothy Bell, Principal of Digby Stuart College, Roehampton, where she learned to weave, Maddox contrived a modus vivendi, and set up home in Camberwell, south London. Her articulacy and gift for the telling image have made her a persuasive spokesman for the mentally ill.…

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Single card sheet, folded. Designed by Tony Woods-McLean, with decorations by the author; no place or date of publication, but circa 2000. "Are there schizophrenic gifts of friendliness? / openness in the face of fear and paranoia? / sensitivity / religious belief / humility in the face of loss and illness / and brokenness / trying, having to try, even to do the smallest things." "I am a Maudsley babe," wrote Imma Maddox in "Schizzy", extracts from an unpublished memoir printed in Poetry Express 18 (2003). "After a breakdown at Oxford [where she was reading PPE] in 1974-5, I ended up at the Villa in the Maudsley Hospital. In Occupational Therapy I made a ball-gown to wear at the May Ball at Oxford. By the time I got back to Oxford I had grown a good six sizes bigger because of the medication. I never went to a May Ball." Imma Maddox was born Joanna Maddox in 1955, the daughter of (Sir) John Maddox, future Editor of Nature (1966-75, 1980-95), and his first wife Nancy, who died in 1960. Her cool realisation of her predicament as a schizophrenic, and her difficulties in performing as an artist in the conventional world, is immediately disarming. Helped notably by Sister Benedicta of All Saints' Convent, Oxford, and Sister Dorothy Bell, Principal of Digby Stuart College, Roehampton, where she learned to weave, Maddox contrived a modus vivendi, and set up home in Camberwell, south London. Her articulacy and gift for the telling image have made her a persuasive spokesman for the mentally ill.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Designed by Robin Waterfield's cousin Hugh de Glanville. "Limited edition" signed by the artist: this copy unsigned, but the publisher's own copy with Hugh de Glanville's "rough draft" incorporating a colour cover (not used), autograph letter signed inserted from de Glanville to Waterfield, and loose later page proofs. "Imma - I only remember that Imma was once called something else," writes John Foskett, Chaplain Emeritus, Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust. "But so much has she become Imma that I can not recall what that other name was. Imma's world - . What a world it is! Full of generosity, like her loom, filling all the space around her. A world aglow with her sensuality and passion, her humour and her rage." Robin Waterfield called this "perhaps [our] oddest publication". "I am a Maudsley babe," wrote Imma Maddox in "Schizzy", extracts from an unpublished memoir printed in Poetry Express 18 (2003). "After a breakdown at Oxford [where she was reading PPE] in 1974-5, I ended up at the Villa in the Maudsley Hospital. In Occupational Therapy I made a ball-gown to wear at the May Ball at Oxford. By the time I got back to Oxford I had grown a good six sizes bigger because of the medication. I never went to a May Ball." Imma Maddox was born Joanna Maddox in 1955, the daughter of (Sir) John Maddox, future Editor of Nature (1966-75, 1980-95), and his first wife Nancy, who died in 1960. Her cool realisation of her predicament as a schizophrenic, and her difficulties in performing as an artist in the conventional world, is immediately disarming. Helped notably by Sister Benedicta of All Saints' Convent, Oxford, and Sister Dorothy Bell, Principal of Digby Stuart College, Roehampton, where she learned to weave, Maddox contrived a modus vivendi, and set up home in Camberwell, south London. Her articulacy and gift for the telling image have made her a persuasive spokesman for the mentally ill.…

No Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. 100 x 125mm (plate area); very mildly creased. Edition limited to nine numbered copies, signed by the artist; undated but circa 2000. "I am a Maudsley babe," wrote Imma Maddox in "Schizzy", extracts from an unpublished memoir printed in Poetry Express 18 (2003). "After a breakdown at Oxford [where she was reading PPE] in 1974-5, I ended up at the Villa in the Maudsley Hospital. In Occupational Therapy I made a ball-gown to wear at the May Ball at Oxford. By the time I got back to Oxford I had grown a good six sizes bigger because of the medication. I never went to a May Ball." Imma Maddox was born Joanna Maddox in 1955, the daughter of (Sir) John Maddox, future Editor of Nature (1966-75, 1980-95), and his first wife Nancy, who died in 1960. Her cool realisation of her predicament as a schizophrenic, and her difficulties in performing as an artist in the conventional world, is immediately disarming. Helped notably by Sister Benedicta of All Saints' Convent, Oxford, and Sister Dorothy Bell, Principal of Digby Stuart College, Roehampton, where she learned to weave, Maddox contrived a modus vivendi, and set up home in Camberwell, south London. Her articulacy and gift for the telling image have made her a persuasive spokesman for the mentally ill. Signed by Illustrator(s). …