Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0500516944 ISBN 13: 9780500516942

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2013

Riassunto

Legendary filmmaker Derek Jarman recorded his life and work in highly detailed sketchbooks. Encompassing both the private and the professional, these offer a personal view into the life and career of a highly influential filmmaker and artist.Drawn from the collection of handmade books that Jarman gave to the British Film Institute shortly before his death in 1994, Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks showcases the most insightful and beautiful pages. Each of the original volumes is composed of drawings, photographs, and cuttings; pressed flowers are set beside scrawled ideas, and carefully penned poems accompany typed and edited working scripts. These once-private books are an intimate pictorial record of the detailed planning and research and the creative and emotional engagement behind every scene in Jarman’s films.

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Annotated scripts for all of his films are included, resulting in a remarkable, once-private archive that fans will savour. --The Bookseller

The book will delight Jarman's still-growing faithful, for whom he remains a unique and irreplaceable artist and provocateur. --The Observer

This 250-page posthumous collection, put together by Stephen Farthing and Ed Webb-Ingall, offers an insight into his creative process, combining his memos, drawings, poems, collages and scripts. --Shortlist

The late, great art-house doyen Derek Jarman's sketchbooks are artworks in themselves: enchanting tapestries woven from annotated scripts, scribbled camera moves, impossibly neat handwritten notes and poems and scrapbook samples from his life and work. --Empire

Seen together for the first time here, [his sketchbooks] reveal the story of how he gathered his ideas. --Gay Times

Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks distils the many strands that made up Jarman's work - humour, torrential creativity, romanticism and the palpable political anger that burned fiercely during the dog days of Thatcherism. --Dazed & Confused

Looks set to be a must-have for the coffee table. --Attitude

it's wonderful to have in print even the partial view of his alchemical modus operandi that Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks provides. --Sight & Sound

This book cements Jarman's status as a man who made a large proportion of his waking hours into rapt, heroic art. --The Daily Telegraph

Beautiful. --Harper's Bazaar

A skilfully curated compendium, in which newspaper cuttings, lines from screenplays, production notes and pressed flowers are juxtaposed with a playfulness that evokes the energy of Jarman's best work. --New Statesman

A welcome opportunity to revisit the extraordinary life and work of this complex man ... This painstakingly constructed portrait serves to renew a sense of respect and awe for a man who operated fearlessly, in often dark times. --The World of Interiors

A precious relic of an era that was 'pre-laptop, pre-Photoshop', when creativity was manual, not digital; it is also an entrancing vindication of the book as an object of art. --Peter Conrad, The Observer

A book of books: it folds the artist and writer's life into one chronological stream, packaging his previously unpublished manuscripts into a beautifully curated compendium ... an important contribution to the literature on Jarman's life and work ... Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks is as multi-textured as the polymath maker it commemorates. --The Times Literary Supplement

More than just production notes to Jarman's films, these Sketchbooks capture the creative and personal life of one of the late 20th-century's finest artists. --The Quietus

This facsimile of the eccentric artist and filmmaker's personal albums, with his jottings in calligraphic fountain pen, simply wouldn't be possible on a Kindle. They belong to another time, another place. --The Spectator

Bestselling ... exquisite photographs ... [has] turned a tabloid monster into a national treasure. --The Independent

Brings Jarman and his art into fuller and more luminous perspective ... painstakingly edited and strikingly reproduced. --New Statesman

A welcome opportunity to revisit the extraordinary life and work of this complex man ... This painstakingly constructed portrait serves to renew a sense of respect and awe for a man who operated fearlessly, in often dark times. --The World of Interiors

A precious relic of an era that was 'pre-laptop, pre-Photoshop', when creativity was manual, not digital; it is also an entrancing vindication of the book as an object of art. --Peter Conrad, The Observer

A book of books: it folds the artist and writer's life into one chronological stream, packaging his previously unpublished manuscripts into a beautifully curated compendium ... an important contribution to the literature on Jarman's life and work ... Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks is as multi-textured as the polymath maker it commemorates. --The Times Literary Supplement

This facsimile of the eccentric artist and filmmaker's personal albums, with his jottings in calligraphic fountain pen, simply wouldn't be possible on a Kindle. They belong to another time, another place. --The Spectator

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There are few more complete examples of an artists 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 Jarmans personal and professional life, revealing the detailed planning and research, and creative and emotional engagement, behind each of his films.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0500516944
• ISBN 13: 9780500516942
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Farthing Stephen, Webb-ingall Ed