Derek Jarman

Chroma

A Book of Color

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1995.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 141mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780816665938
• ISBN-10: 0816665931
• Artikelnr.: 28134733

Autorenporträt

One of England’s foremost filmmakers, Derek Jarman (1942–1994) wrote and directed several feature films, including Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, and Blue, as well as numerous short films and music videos. He was a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist in the UK and the United States. He is the author of several books, among them Modern Nature, available from the University of Minnesota Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
White Lies
Shadow is the Queen of Colour
On Seeing Red
The Romance of the Rose and the Sleep of Colour
Grey Matter
Marsilio Ficino
Green Fingers
Alchemical Colour
How Now Brown Cow
The Perils of YellowOrange
TipLeonardo
Into the Blue
Isaac Newton
Purple Passage
Black Arts: O Mia Anima Nera
Silver and Gold
Iridescence
Translucence

Rezensionen

Chroma is more than an Aids autobiography...it is a paean to colour...Shot through with sass and moving testimony...this complexly written, yet stylish and readable book locates most powerfully the sublimal brilliance of one artist Gay Times