Derek Jarman's angelic conversations

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Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.

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Full title :Derek Jarman's angelic conversations / Jim Ellis.

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Publication Date:©2009.

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Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxii, 303 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780816670536, 0816670536, 0816653127, 9780816653126, 0816653135, 9780816653133
oclc:ocn593277590
LC Classification:PN1998.3.J3
Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092

Introduction: getting history wrong -- Artistic and sexual revolutions. Situationism and other avant-gardes ; The gay liberation front -- Liberation, space, and the early films. Reconfiguring "home" in the super-8s ; Gay liberation theology in Sebastiane -- The Elizabethan future. Jubilee and the punk nation ; Punk heritage in The tempest -- The Caravaggio years. Imagining change : Imagining October ; Homoerotic countermythologies in The angelic conversation ; Caravaggio : gay history and the scripts ; Caravaggio and the art of the past -- Thatcherism, AIDS, and war. The last of England and the landscape of loss ; War requiem and the army of lovers -- Time and the garden. The garden at Prospect Cottage ; Gardening history in Modern nature ; Histories of the fall in The garden -- Blindness and insight. Edward II : queer Gothic ; Wittgenstein and the queer life ; Queer vision in Blue -- Coda : the raft of the Medusa.