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Blue by Derek Jarman
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
"For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." —Derek JarmanOriginally 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 te ...Show more
Derek Jarman by Derek Jarman ; Laetitia Chauvin (Editor); Clément Dirié (Editor); Claire Le Restif (Editor); Elisabeth Lebovici (Text by)
Category: Performing Arts
Writings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher Turner. Gathering newly commissioned essays devoted to specific - and sometimes lesser-known - aspects of the artist's life and work, and extensi ...Show more
Derek Jarman's Garden by Derek Jarman;
Category: Design
Derek Jarman created his own garden in the flat, bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. A passionate gardener from childhood, he combined his painter's eye, his horticultural expertise and his ecological convictions to produce a landscape which mixed the flint, ...Show more
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
Category: Biography | Series: The\Journals of Derek Jarman Ser.
A divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. 'An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century' Hans Ulrich Obrist WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY OLIVIA LAING In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren ...Show more
Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics
'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fish ...Show more
Smiling in Slow Motion by Derek Jarman
Category: Biography
Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest. ...Show more
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