Derek Jarman’s Visionary Arts Exploring Land and Depth

Free Download Michael Charlesworth, "Derek Jarman’s Visionary Arts: Exploring Land and Depth"
English | ISBN: 1350385735 | 2024 | 224 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
Derek Jarman’s place in the history of film is assured by virtue of his vibrant, defiant films that experiment with the very process of film-making and create new forms. His paintings, their excitements and their profundity, are less well known.

Michael Charlesworth sheds light on the varied ramifications of Jarman’s artistic practice from his years at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, and provides the first book-length study of his interest in depth psychology. He draws on Jarman’s paintings, especially his landscapes from the 1960s and 70s, his multiple series such as ‘black’ and ‘broken glass’, GBH, Queer and Evil Queen, and his last Ecstatic Landscapes (1991-3). He also showcases Jarman’s excellence as a writer with respect to his memoir, Kicking the Pricks. In a novel approach to Jarman’s cinema, selecting films such as
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