{"title":"Derek Jarman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerek Jarman (1942-1994) was a multi-talented English artist known for his work as a film director, stage designer, diarist, author, and gardener. Born in Northwood, Middlesex, England, Jarman made significant contributions to the arts throughout his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis diverse body of work encompassed various mediums including film, literature, and visual art. Jarman's unique artistic vision and innovative approach set him apart from his contemporaries. He was renowned for his thought-provoking films that challenged societal norms and explored themes of sexuality and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his filmmaking career, Jarman also excelled as a stage designer and created visually stunning sets for numerous theatrical productions. His creativity extended beyond the stage and screen; he was an accomplished author who documented his life experiences in captivating diaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blue-17","title":"Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50411545723211,"sku":"2005729","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot_2022-12-29_at_12.33.00_b5b2cf3b_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726659768"},{"product_id":"through-the-billboard-promised-land-without-ever-stopping","title":"Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished here for the very first time, 'Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping' is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. Written in 1971, it is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work – a literary fairytale acid-trip road movie hybrid – the energies and details of which influenced much of his later work across media. The richly poetic story, a cinematic prose quest, tracks the journey of a blind young King and his valet, disguised as beggars, who set out in no particular direction and with no particular purpose. Departing from Fargo, across the frontier of Movietown, along the Superhighway and picnicking on the Lawns of Paradise, they encounter vivid characters like Pierrot, Borgia Ginz and Topaz, an Emperor who ‘smiles with the art of mirrors’, as well as a Sphinx with ‘Silence is Golden’ written in her eyes.The story serves as a foundational text, laying out many of the themes, images and styling of Jarman’s work in painting, film and design whilst also being haunted by the then emerging ecological crisis in its juxtaposition of the beauty of nature with the reckless consumption of modernity. This edition features facsimile images of the story’s handwritten drafts from Jarman’s archive, a link to an exclusive audio recording of Jarman himself reading the story in full, and is comprehensively informed by a vivid foreword from Philip Hoare, a deeply researched afterword by Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen, and a warm memoir by the artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman’s throughout the period of the story’s writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House Sparrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50460411199819,"sku":"2002594","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9781913513320_8b601d73_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727231959"},{"product_id":"a-finger-in-the-fishes-mouth","title":"A Finger in the Fishes Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003eA facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s sole, early, extremely rare poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeavily illustrated from Jarman's collection of postcards, the book combines text and visual imagery in a way which foreshadows his subsequent style as an artist and filmmaker. With the majority of the first edition having been destroyed by Jarman, this makes available a missing, significant piece of his oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inpress Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50937295634763,"sku":"2235399","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7117RYeQ7HL._SY522__91c571cc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1733419210"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_69116fba_thumbnail_4096_c7590db7-1947-49dd-90c1-0f5dec3f97ed.jpg?v=1726659746","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/derek-jarman.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}