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A meditation on the color spectrum by Britain's most controversial filmmaker
CHROMA: A Book of Color
By Derek Jarman
University of Minnesota Press | 160 pages | 2010
ISBN 978-0-8166-6593-8| paperback | $18.95
"Chroma, with its rich blend of the philosophical and the personal,
the arcane and anecdotal, is a further reminder of Jarman's artistic
vision." -The Times (London)
"Chroma is a book with ambitions to be a poem, a diary, an
autobiography, a gay manifesto, a contribution to art history, a
confession, and a color chart. . . . In Chroma, white is the color of
the cliffs of Dover, as well as a young man's sperm. . . . Red is the
color of itchy blotches that AIDS sufferers want to scratch, the
color of blood, stop signs, Mrs. Jarman's lipstick. Blue, as we
already know, is the color of the infinity that awaits the dying
man." -The Sunday Times (London)
One of England's foremost filmmakers, Derek Jarman (1942-1994) wrote
and directed several feature films, including Sebastiane, Jubilee,
Caravaggio, and Blue, as well as numerous short films and music
videos. He was a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and an
outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist in the UK and the United
States. He is the author of several books, among them Modern Nature,
available from the University of Minnesota Press.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the
book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/J/jarman_chroma.html
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