Thames & Hudson Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks (Deluxe Edition)

Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks – Deluxe Edition. Edited by Stephen Farthing and Ed Webb-Ingall. With a preface by Tilda Swinton. Featuring contributions from Keith Collins, Christopher Hobbs, Andrew Logan, James Mackay, Jon Savage, Howard Sooley, Neil Tennant and Toyah Willcox. DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION. INCLUDES THREE PRINTS. Containing poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, Derek Jarman’s sketchbooks are part autobiography and part social history, bursting with the energy and creativity of this groundbreaking artist. This publication collates the best of Jarman’s sketchbooks to reveal the detailed planning and emotional engagement behind each of his films in more depth than ever before. This deluxe edition is limited to 500 copies, each presented in a cloth-covered slipcase. Each numbered copy is accompanied by three prints reproduced from the sketchbooks, housed in an envelope tipped into the book. The book, which is covered in real blue cloth with gold foil blocking on the spine and in a debossed recess on the frontboard, is c.15% larger than the standard edition. 196 illustrations, 187 in colour, 31.0 x 24.0cm, 256pp, ISBN 978 0 500 517185 . £150.00 slipcased hardback + 3 prints Table of Contents Contents: ‘Foreword’ Tilda Swinton • ‘An Introduction to Derek Jarman as Film-maker’ Jon Savage • ‘Early Experiments with Film 1964–1977’ Andrew Logan • ‘Jubilee to Angelic Conversation 1978–1986’ Toyah Willcox • ‘Caravaggio 1986’ Christopher Hobbs • ‘The Last of England to War Requiem 1987–1989’ James Mackay • ‘The Garden 1990’ Howard Sooley • Edward II to Glitterbug 1991–1993 Neil Tennant • ‘Blue 1994–1997’ Keith Collins