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Chroma: A Book of Colour – June ’93
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A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman’s life — with a new introduction by Ali Smith.In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical book, Derek Jarman explores the uses of colour. Shifting across the spectrum and from the medieval to the modern, he draws on the work of great colour theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. Interwoven with these musings are evocative memories from Jarman’s childhood and illustrious career, along with reflections on his deteriorating health. Written a year before Jarman’s death, and as his eyesight was failing, this is an intensely personal work; a paean from an artist seeking to memorialise the extraordinary power of colour even while it receded from his own life.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.123 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 |
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| Year Published | 1995-1-19 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099474913 |
| About The Author | Derek Jarman was born in London in 1942. His career spanned decades and genres, from painter, theatre designer, director, film maker, to poet, writer, campaigner and gardener. His features include Sebastiane (1976), Jubilee (1978), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), Edward II (1991) and Blue (1993). His paintings – for which he was a Turner Prize nominee in 1986 – continue to be exhibited worldwide, and his garden in Dungeness remains a site of pilgrimage to fans and newcomers alike. |
Chroma is more than an Aids autobiography…it is a paean to colour…Shot through with sass and moving testimony…this complexly written, yet stylish and readable book locates most powerfully the sublimal brilliance of one artist |
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| Other text | Chroma sparks off pieces of Jarman's poetry and prose against fragments that span Ovid, Alberti, Goethe and Wittgenstein…to form a highly personal reflection on colour, a keleidoscopic experience that throws out different facets like a prism in the light |
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