Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 [signed]

Jarman, Derek

ISBN 10: 0712657541 / ISBN 13: 9780712657549

Published by Century, 1994

About this Item

Dust jacket bright, very slight creasing at top-edge, a suggestion of rubbing on each panel; Purple paper boards, no notable wear; Pages toned throughout, Jarman's signature on ffep ['To Ronnie, best wishes, Derek Jarman'], no annotation; A selection of newspaper clippings on Jarman's life and work laid in front [majority dated 1994, including pieces from 'Time Out', 'The Pink Paper', 'The Daily Telegraph' and more]; Binding tight. This is a signed first edition of Derek Jarman's (1942-1994) 'Chroma', a meditation on the colour spectrum with lyrical combinations of classical theory, anecdotes and poetry. ; 5.5 x 8.75"; 192 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 53546

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 [signed]
• Publisher: Century
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712657541
• ISBN 13: 9780712657549
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman. From the explosions of image and color in In The Shadow of the Sun, The Last of England, The Garden and Wittgenstein, to the somber blacks of his collages and tar paintings, Jarman has consistently used color in unprecedented ways, making his ideas on the subject of interest to filmmakers, film audiences, artists and students alike. Blue, his most personal and innovative film, consists of a compelling soundtrack accompanied by a monochrome blue image and is, among other things, a comment on Jarman's diminishing eyesight due to AIDS. In his signature style, a lyrical combination of classical theory, anecdote, and poetry, Jarman takes the reader through the spectrum, introducing each color as an embodiment of an emotion, evoking memories or dreams. He explains the use of color in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great color theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. He writes too about the meanings of color in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy. Read either as a work on color, or a distillation of Jarman's artistic vision, Chroma presents an exciting perspective on the subject.

From Publishers Weekly

England's brashest independent filmmaker (Edward II, Wittgenstein), Jarman, who died of AIDS last February, draws on personal anecdote, literature and the work of Wittgenstein, Leonardo, Pliny and Kandinsky in this sketchy and highly idiosyncratic series of meditations on color. Focusing chapters on individual colors or on qualities like iridescence, Jarman moves freely from one passage, be it a quotation from Isaac Newton or a nursery rhyme, to another: a memory of his aloof father, a list of prices for brands of white oil paint. Jarman's pictorially lush films are vivid testimony to his sensitivity to the subject, but the fragments assembled here are not consistently informative or eloquent enough to reward any but the most ardent fans of the filmmaker.

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