Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2099392 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

About the Author
Derek Jarman's creativity spanned decades and genres - painter, theatre designer, director, film maker, writer and gardener.
From his first one-man show at the Lisson Gallery in 1969; set designs and costumes for the theatre and ballet (Jazz Calendar with Frederick Ashton at Covent Garden, Don Giovanni with John Gielgud at the London Coliseum, The Rake's Progress with Ken Russell at Teatro Communale, Florence); production design for Ken Russell's films The Devils and Savage Messiah; through his own films in super-8 before working on features: Sebastine (1976), Jubilee (1978), The Tempest (1979), The Angelic Conversation (1985), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), War Requiem (1989), The Garden (1990), Edward II (1991), Wittgenstein (1993), and Blue (1993); to directing pop-videos and live performances for Pet Shop Boys and Suede.
His paintings - for which he was a Turner Prize nominee in 1986 - have been exhibited world-wide.
His garden surrounding the fisherman's cottage in Dungeness where he spent the last years of his life remains a site of awe and pilgrimage to fans and newcomers to Jarman's singular vision.
His publications include: Dancing Ledge (1984), Kicking the Pricks (1987), Modern Nature (1991), At Your Own Risk (1992), Chroma (1994), Derek Jarman's Garden (1995).

Customer Reviews

discussions with jarman
This book gives us a look into Jarman's worlds: his academic world, his childhood and his eventual death. It gives the reader a warm if brief account of Jarman's childhood, this books pages are lined with charming stories of Jarman's kleptomaniac father and his family's middle class history. This book is also largely about Jarman's views on the fiscal-run politics of the film industry, Derek Jarman discusses in detail why he resents mainstream cinema and provides a thought provoking critique of the business of making movies.
This book served as my first introduction to Derek Jarman but despite this I found it engrossing, the conversations with the interviewer really do serve to highlight the amazing wit and intelligent of this truly original artist, this book is worth reading.