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At Your Own Risk
Derek Jarman
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Description for At Your Own Risk
paperback. A series of autobiographical fragments, interviews and newspapers extracts in which the painter, theatre designer and film-maker, Derek Jarman, articulates the pain, anxiety and rage which many homosexuals have felt under the physical, legal and cultural attacks of recent years. Num Pages: 176 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB; BGA; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 135.
Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality and the perfect read for Pride month. In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the ... Read more
Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality and the perfect read for Pride month. In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099222910
SKU
V9780099222910
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99-98
About Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman was born in London in 1942. His career spanned decades and genres, from painter, theatre designer, director, film maker, to poet, writer, campaigner and gardener. His features include Sebastiane (1976), Jubilee (1978), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), Edward II (1991) and Blue (1993). His paintings - for which he was a Turner Prize nominee in 1986 ... Read more
Reviews for At Your Own Risk
If there is any such thing as the literary equivalent of an incendiary bomb, then this is it... His semtex-packed sentences are welcome thunderflashes of dissent in the grey drizzle of a dispirited political climate
New Statesman
At Your Own Risk gives the reader access to something that is hard to articulate, the near asphyxiating pain, ... Read more
New Statesman
At Your Own Risk gives the reader access to something that is hard to articulate, the near asphyxiating pain, ... Read more