'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours,I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms.'In 1984 at the age of 40,the polymath film-maker Derek Jarman began to write his journals. In the first of these diaries,Dancing Ledge,we see his origins as a young artist,written with Jarman's distinctive immediacy,curiosity,and candour. Behind-the-scenes of his first controversial films and stage designs,at glamorous launch parties with friends like David Hockney,Ossie Clarke and Patrick Proktor,to the trials of securing funding,Dancing Ledge is a coming-of-age memoir for all fledgling artists.Dancing Ledge also chronicles a unique time in British history,capturing gay nightlife from the end of the war to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784877682Number of pages: 208Weight: 170 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm
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Jarman's light illuminates the wilderness as brightly as everJarman (is) the sort of troublemaking visionary who one day may be compared with Blake
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