At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament

Jarman, Derek

ISBN 10: 0879515384 / ISBN 13: 9780879515386

Published by The Overlook Press, New York, NY, 1994

About this Item

A bit of edge wear to card covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament
• Publisher: The Overlook Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879515384
• ISBN 13: 9780879515386
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: American First.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Iconoclastic filmmaker Derek Jarman (Caravaggio, Edward II) offers an impassioned and provocative celebration of gay sexuality, overflowing with his blunt and uncompromising philosophy of life in the age of AIDS. Photos.

About the Author

Derek Jarman's creativity spanned decades and genres - painter, theatre designer, director, film maker, writer and gardener. From his first one-man show at the Lisson Gallery in 1969; set designs and costumes for the theatre and ballet (Jazz Calendar with Frederick Ashton at Covent Garden, Don Giovanni with John Gielgud at the London Coliseum, The Rake's Progress with Ken Russell at Teatro Communale, Florence); production design for Ken Russell's films The Devils and Savage Messiah; through his own films in super-8 before working on features: Sebastine (1976), Jubilee (1978), The Tempest (1979), The Angelic Conversation (1985), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), War Requiem (1989), The Garden (1990), Edward II (1991), Wittgenstein (1993), and Blue (1993); to directing pop-videos and live performances for Pet Shop Boys and Suede. His paintings - for which he was a Turner Prize nominee in 1986 - have been exhibited world-wide. His publications include: Dancing Ledge (1984), Kicking the Pricks (1987), Modern Nature (1991), At Your Own Risk (1992), Chroma (1994), Derek Jarman's Garden (1995). Jarman died in 1994 of an AIDS-related illness, aged 52. His garden surrounding the fisherman's cottage in Dungeness where he spent the last years of his life remains a site of awe and pilgrimage for fans and newcomers to Jarman's singular vision.