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At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament by Derek Jarman
Category: Biography Memoir
Derek Jarman is known as a painter, theatre designer and maker of films such as "Jubilee", "Caravaggio", "The Garden" and "Edward II". This book consists of a series of autobiographical fragments, interviews and newspapers extracts in which he celebrates homosexuality, articulating the pain, anxiety and ...Show more
Blue by Derek Jarman
Category: Art and Design | 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
Chroma A Book of Colour - June '93 by Derek Jarman
Category: Biography
In CHROMA Derek Jarman explains the use of colour in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great colour theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. He also talks about the meaning of colours in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy. The colours on ...Show more
Dancing Ledge: Journals vol. 1 by Derek Jarman
Category: Biography
'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms.' The first in Derek Jarman's autobiographical journals, spanning the 60s and 70s to its publication in 1 ...Show more
Derek Jarman by Derek Jarman ; Laetitia Chauvin (Editor); Clément Dirié (Editor); Claire Le Restif (Editor); Elisabeth Lebovici (Text by)
Category: Film & Tv
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: Home and Garden
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: Home and Garden | 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: General Fiction
This autobiography, taken from his diaries of 1991-94, interweaves Jarman's harrowing account of physical decline and failing eyesight with wonderfully poetic and detailed descriptions of the changing seasons of Dungeness, his meetings with Tennant, Freud and others, his thoughts on his sex life and his ...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
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping by Derek Jarman
Category: Fiction
Written in 1971 and published here for the first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman's only piece of narrative fiction; a surreal, fable-like, lyrical tale which echoes throughout his later work.
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