Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks -

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Résumé :
There are few more complete examples of an artist's record of their own life than the intimately detailed and beautifully produced handmade books that Derek Jarman created throughout his career. Seen together they reveal the story of how he gathered, shaped and made concrete his ideas. Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, the sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, layered and bursting with the energy and creativity not only of this groundbreaking film-maker and artist, but also of London in the 1970s and 80s. Wholly private during his lifetime, these precious books are an intimate pictorial record of the relationship between Jarman's personal and professional life, revealing the detailed planning and research, and creative and emotional engagement, behind each of his films....

Biographie:
Ed Webb-Ingall is a film producer who holds a research position at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London....

Sommaire:
Contents: 'Foreword' Tilda Swinton ? 'An Introduction to Derek Jarman as Film-maker' Jon Savage ? 'Early Experiments with Film 1964-1977' Andrew Logan ? 'Jubilee to Angelic Conversation 1978-1986' Toyah Willcox ? 'Caravaggio 1986' Christopher Hobbs ? 'The Last of England to War Requiem 1987-1989' James Mackay ? 'The Garden 1990' Howard Sooley ? Edward II to Glitterbug 1991-1993 Neil Tennant ? 'Blue 1994-1997' Keith Collins...

[An] exquisitely curated book. . . .Voluptuous works of art in themselves, these sketchbooks, taken from handmade books the filmmaker gave to the British Film Institute before his death in 1994, blend the written and the visual, revealing the inner workings of the creative process and Jarman's evolution as a filmmaker, artist, and gardener.