Navigating The Atomic Book

The Atomic Book was conceived of and designed by Gareth Sion Jenkins with technical support from Dr Roger Jenkins. It is the result of four years of data collection by Gareth Sion Jenkins and is designed as a companion to Gareth's PhD thesis, which analyses the creation production of the artist and writer Anthony Mannix.
The vast majority of the work discussed in this thesis is unpublished. It is held in singular artists' books privately stored in the artist's premises, which is not open to the public. The Atomic Book was therefore formulated to simulate the seventy-two works (artists' books and unbound manuscripts) that constitute the primary material presently under investigation. Whilst Artists' books make up the vast majority of the material held within The Atomic Book, the archive also contains Mannix's sound recordings, a video work and various forms of biographical documentation ranging from images of landmarks that feature in his work to letters from theorists which comment on his books.
Quotations from books contained in The Atomic Book are organised and searchable via the quotation's 'mo' [mannix object] reference number. Each 'mo' number pertains to a particular digital object (book/sound recording/documentary material) stored in the archive. All books are in Portable Document Format (PDF) and such files supply the page numbers used in the thesis.


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