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Article: Book review: A beachcomber in the footsteps of Blake Derek Jarman by Tony Peake Little, Brown pounds 25
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 21, 1999
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Whatever you think about Derek Jarman - and he wasn't one to
discourage dissenters - there's no denying that he pursued his
aesthetic with passionate conviction. The man is inextricable from
his work, for in his day-to- day life, as in his art, he went looking
for love and colour and exuberance and, above all, the promise of
magic.
From the twilight coast of Dorset to his thrilling night-world of
pubs, clubs and assignations on Hampstead Heath, Jarman played the
beachcomber, the alchemist, the Blakean visionary, bringing together
disparate objects, images or people in his indefatigable quest to
reveal the mythic behind the mundane.
He painted, used collage, designed stage-sets, made ...