Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks Hardcover by Stephen Farthing;Ed Webb-ingall

Product Details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson (2013-10-22)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780500516942
• Item Weight: 1360.8 grams
• Dimensions: 10.72 x 8.38 x 1.07 cm

Part autobiography and part social history: the acclaimed director’s filmmaking process revealed through his private sketchbooks

Legendary filmmaker Derek Jarman recorded his life and work in highly detailed sketchbooks. Encompassing both the private and the professional, these offer a personal view into the life and career of a highly influential filmmaker and artist.

Drawn from the collection of handmade books that Jarman gave to the British Film Institute shortly before his death in 1994, Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks showcases the most insightful and beautiful pages. Each of the original volumes is composed of drawings, photographs, and cuttings; pressed flowers are set beside scrawled ideas, and carefully penned poems accompany typed and edited working scripts. These once-private books are an intimate pictorial record of the detailed planning and research and the creative and emotional engagement behind every scene in Jarman’s films.

About the Author

Stephen Farthing is a painter and was the Rootstein Hopkins research professor of drawing at the University of the Arts, London from 2004 to 2017. He is the general editor of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die.

Ed Webb-Ingall is a film producer who holds a research position at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.

Tilda Swinton is an Academy Award-winning actress whose film debut in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio marked the beginning of a close association with the director. She lives in Scotland.