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Title: Blue
Condition: New
EAN: 9781644230886
ISBN: 9781644230886
Publisher: David Zwirner
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 04/06/2023
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 178mm
Item Length: 108mm
Item Weight: 60g
Author: Derek Jarman
Contributor: Michael Charlesworth (Introduction by)
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Ekphrasis
Release Year: 2023

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