Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness,dying,and love."For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions."-Derek Jarman Originally released as a feature film in 1993,the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's death due to an AIDS-related illness,Blue is a daring and powerful work of art. The film - and this highly-anticipated book's text - serve as iconoclastic responses to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis. Written poetically and surrealistically,Jarman's text moves through myriad scenes,some banal,others fantastical. Stories of quotidian life-getting coffee,reading the newspaper,and walking down the sidewalk-escalate to visions of Marco Polo,the Taj Mahal,or blue fighting yellow. Facing death and a cascade of pills,Jarman presents his illness in delirium and metaphors. He contemplates the physicality of emotions in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to Blue - a color,a feeling,a funk. Michael Charlesworth's compelling introduction brings Blue into conversation with Jarman's visual paintings as never before.
Publisher: David ZwirnerISBN: 9781644230886Number of pages: 64Weight: 60 gDimensions: 178 x 108 mm
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