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Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks
Stephen Farthing
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Description for Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks
Hardcover. There are few more examples of an artists record of their own life than the detailed handmade books that Derek Jarman created throughout his career. This book reveals the story of how he gathered, shaped and made concrete his ideas. Num Pages: 256 pages, 196 illustrations, 187 in colour. BIC Classification: AFF; AGC; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 213 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1390.
There are few more complete examples of an artist's record of their own life than the intimately detailed and beautifully produced handmade books that Derek Jarman created throughout his career. Seen together they reveal the story of how he gathered, shaped and made concrete his ideas. Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, the sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, layered and bursting with the energy and creativity not only of this groundbreaking film-maker and artist, but also of London in the 1970s and 80s. Wholly private during his lifetime, these precious books are ... Read more
There are few more complete examples of an artist's record of their own life than the intimately detailed and beautifully produced handmade books that Derek Jarman created throughout his career. Seen together they reveal the story of how he gathered, shaped and made concrete his ideas. Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, the sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, layered and bursting with the energy and creativity not only of this groundbreaking film-maker and artist, but also of London in the 1970s and 80s. Wholly private during his lifetime, these precious books are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1391g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500516942
SKU
V9780500516942
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Stephen Farthing
Stephen Farthing is a painter and the Rootstein Hopkins Research Professor of Drawing at the University of the Arts, London. Ed Webb-Ingall is a film producer who holds a research position at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
Reviews for Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks
'Distils the many strands that made up Jarman's work - humour, torrential creativity, romanticism and the palpable political anger that burned fiercely during the dog days of Thatcherism' - Dazed & Confused 'Brings Jarman and his art into fuller and more luminous perspective ... painstakingly edited and strikingly reproduced' - New Statesman 'Will delight Jarman's still-growing faithful, for ... Read more