Derek Jarman

Chroma (eBook, ePUB)

A Book of Colour - June '93

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman's life -- with a new introduction by Ali Smith.

In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical book, Derek Jarman explores the uses of colour. Shifting across the spectrum and from the medieval to the modern, he draws on the work of great colour theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. Interwoven with these musings are evocative memories from Jarman's childhood and illustrious career, along with reflections on his deteriorating health.

Written a year before Jarman's death, and as his eyesight was failing, this is an intensely personal work; a paean from an artist seeking to memorialise the extraordinary power of colour even while it receded from his own life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473559035
• Artikelnr.: 49745465

Autorenporträt

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 - continue to be exhibited worldwide, and his garden in Dungeness remains a site of pilgrimage to fans and newcomers alike.

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