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Article: Derek Jarman: A Biography.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2000
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Derek Jarman: A Biography * Tony Peake * Overlook * $40
It's no exaggeration to say that Derek Jarman's life and work were filled with contradictions. Jarman's films--Sebastiane, Jubilee, The Tempest, Caravaggio, Edward II, Wittgenstein, Blue--showed an artist who loved to mix and flip periods, styles, and narrative structures. The tumult made his work a feast for the senses. In his new biography, Derek Jarman, Tony Peake shows where the contradictory impulses came from. The late British artist, writes Peake, "liked the concept ... of duality: that there are two sides to everything ... and that these opposites are found in all people, where they can be joined and ...