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Derek Jarman Michael Charlesworth

Derek Jarman By Michael Charlesworth

Derek Jarman by Michael Charlesworth


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Summary

As the first book to integrate critical analyses of the entire range of Derek Jarman's works with a biography of the artist, Charlesworth provides an engaging new biography of the influential film-maker, painter, writer, diarist, poet, gardener and set-designer.

Derek Jarman Summary

Derek Jarman by Michael Charlesworth

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) is most often remembered as one of Europe's most innovative independent film-makers, whose films called into question and re-ordered the nature of film-making itself. But he was also a painter, writer and poet, gardener, set designer for other people's films, ballet, opera and theatre, and influential campaigner for gay rights and other causes. He was also the author of an extraordinary series of journals that offer invaluable insight not only into the nature of the society in which he lived but also into his own creative process. It is remarkable that his art was not confined to one or two of these activities but embraced all of them. This new biography of Jarman discusses the entire range of his works and provides a picture of the whole man, from childhood to his untimely death in 1994. For the first time it properly integrates his paintings and writings with his film, demonstrating the strong connections between his varied areas of artistic production. Author Michael Charlesworth employs and assesses film criticism, art history, garden and nature writing, critical analysis of poetry and the personal opinions of Jarman and his friends. He also shows how Jarman was an invaluable voice for a larger range of people: one who espoused love, friendship and art; one who fearlessly pushed forward intellectual virtues and the value of art in an often hostile and unappreciative political and social atmosphere. Fresh in its conclusions, engaging in style, Derek Jarman is accessible, thought-provoking, radical in its arguments and its tracing of the patterns of Jarman's phenomenal creativity. An invaluable complement to Jarman's works, this book will interest all Jarman fans as well as readers interested in the history of film, the arts and modern British history and culture.

Derek Jarman Reviews

'Charleworth tells Jarman's story well in this commendably brief book.' - Observer

About Michael Charlesworth

Michael Charlesworth is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Gothic Revival (2002) and Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth Century Britain and France (2008). He is also the editor of The English Garden (1993).

Additional information

GOR005602893
9781861898609
1861898606
Derek Jarman by Michael Charlesworth
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Reaktion Books
20111001
224
N/A
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