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Synopsis
Derek Jarman, who was diagnosed HIV positive in 1987, explores the proposition that the prospect of imminent death makes a man feel more fully alive. With his own senses about to be extinguished, and tuned to the highest pitch, he tries to capture on paper the essence of sensual experience. Because he is a painter he has organized his ideas according to colour. Although a few painters, such as Van Gogh and Yves Klein, have written about colour, none has previously attempted a comprehensive disquition. Derek Jarman talks about the meanings of the colours in painting, literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy, and the way they are used in painting and in film, popular culture and advertising. He draws, too, on his own epiphanic experiences of sensual intensity. At art school with David Hockney and Patrick Proctor, then designing sets for John Gielgud and Ken Russell, Derek Jarman went on to become Britain's leading independent film-maker. His films include "Sebastiane", "Jubilee", "The Tempest", "The Garden" and "Edward II".
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"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 and the processes that inform, and are celebrated through, his work" (Gay Times)
"Chroma sparks off pieces of Jarman's poetry and prose against fragments that span Ovid, Alberti, Goethe and Wittgenstein...to form a highly personal reflection on colour, a keleidoscopic experience that throws out different facets like a prism in the light" (New Statesman)
"Jarman reminds us how much there is to be smelled, observed and listened to in the world if we do not walk past it" (Guardian)
"The context of the writing of this book inevitably turns it from an amusing bricollage to a gesture of extraordinary generosity, a tribute to the continuing need to create and communicate on the very edge of darkness" (Financial Times)
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Drawing on a long, rich and varied artistic career, the legendary Derek Jarman explores colour from medieval to modern art with the distinctive combination of passion, insight and style that characterizes his work.
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- PublisherCentury
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0712657541
- ISBN 13 9780712657549
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket bright, very slight creasing at top-edge, a suggestion of rubbing on each panel; Purple paper boards, no notable wear; Pages toned throughout, Jarman's signature on ffep ['To Ronnie, best wishes, Derek Jarman'], no annotation; A selection of newspaper clippings on Jarman's life and work laid in front [majority dated 1994, including pieces from 'Time Out', 'The Pink Paper', 'The Daily Telegraph' and more]; Binding tight. This is a signed first edition of Derek Jarman's (1942-1994) 'Chroma', a meditation on the colour spectrum with lyrical combinations of classical theory, anecdotes and poetry. ; 5.5 x 8.75"; 192 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 53546
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman. From the explosions of image and color in In The Shadow of the Sun, The Last of England, The Garden and Wittgenstein, to the somber blacks of his collages and tar paintings, Jarman has consistently used color in unprecedented ways, making his ideas on the subject of interest to filmmakers, film audiences, artists and students alike. Blue, his most personal and innovative film, consists of a compelling soundtrack accompanied by a monochrome blue image and is, among other things, a comment on Jarman\'s diminishing eyesight due to AIDS. In his signature style, a lyrical combination of classical theory, anecdote, and poetry, Jarman takes the reader through the spectrum, introducing each color as an embodiment of an emotion, evoking memories or dreams. He explains the use of color in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great color theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. He writes too about the meanings of color in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy. Read either as a work on color, or a distillation of Jarman\'s artistic vision, Chroma presents an exciting perspective on the subject. Seller Inventory # AMPLE0712657541
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