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Blue Derek Jarman

Blue By Derek Jarman

Blue by Derek Jarman


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Blue by Derek Jarman

For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions. -Derek Jarman

Originally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's death due to an AIDS-related illness, Blue is a daring and powerful work of art. The film - and this highly-anticipated book's text - serve as iconoclastic responses to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis.

Written poetically and surrealistically, Jarman's text moves through myriad scenes, some banal, others fantastical. Stories of quotidian life--getting coffee, reading the newspaper, and walking down the sidewalk--escalate to visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow. Facing death and a cascade of pills, Jarman presents his illness in delirium and metaphors. He contemplates the physicality of emotions in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to Blue - a color, a feeling, a funk. Michael Charlesworth's compelling introduction brings Blue into conversation with Jarman's visual paintings as never before.

About Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was an English artist, filmmaker, stage designer, diarist, author, and gardener. After attending King's College London and the Slade School of Art, he began a career as a painter. He also became a set designer, working on such productions as The Royal Ballet's Jazz Calendar (1968) and The English National Opera's production of Don Giovanni (1968), as well as a number of films. In the early 1970s, Jarman began a series of filmworks made with Super 8, followed by his first full-length feature film, Sebastiane, in 1975. He went on to make ten more feature films, among them the famous experimental biographies, Caravaggio (1986) and The Garden (1990). His final feature, Blue, was first shown at the Biennale Arte, Venice, in June 1993, seven months before his death.

Additional information

NGR9781644230886
9781644230886
1644230887
Blue by Derek Jarman
New
Paperback
David Zwirner
2023-04-06
64
N/A
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