By Angles Driven: The Films of Derek Jarman.(Review)

Cineaste | March 22, 1997| | Copyright

Edited by Chris Lippard. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996. 202 pp., illus. Hardcover: $59.95, Paperback: $22.95

With a portfolio of work that crosses media boundaries, including film, video, painting, and literary memoirs, Derek Jarman (1942-1994) always resisted definitions, choosing to maximize the benefits of his position as an artist at the institutional and esthetic margins. Matched with his increasingly public persona as a gay activist, Jarman's enigmatic quality extended even to his own identity. Indeed, much of the impetus for his creative activity ...

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