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ISBN-10: 1644230887
ISBN-13: 9781644230886
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Publish Date: 05/09/2023
Dimensions: 6.70" L, 4.10" W, 0.30" H

Blue

Introduction by: Michael Charlesworth

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Price: $15.00

Overview

Derek Jarman’s Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love.

“For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions.” –Derek Jarman

Originally 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 its script, as reproduced in this volume, serve as an impassioned response to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis.

Jarman’s Blue 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.

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"This screenplay carves the artist's own use of blue into the canon, an endless performance that one can step into at any moment"– "The Brooklyn Rail"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1644230887
ISBN-13: 9781644230886
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Publish Date: 05/09/2023
Dimensions: 6.70" L, 4.10" W, 0.30" H
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