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Article: Derek Jarman's brave nude world
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 15, 1999
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Copyright informationCopyright 1999 Evening Standard - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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DEREK JARMAN
by Tony Peake
(Little, Brown, 25)
NAKED Roman soldiers frolicking in a pool; naked rugby players
scrumming down; naked shipwrecked sailors dancing to Stormy Weather:
welcome to Derek Jarman's brave nude world. The director of such
films as Sebastiane, Edward II and The Tempest was also a painter,
stage designer, gardener and diarist.
He believed "a boy's arse is the hole to heaven" and spent most of
his life trying to get in there. He died of Aids in 1994.
Tony Peake considers Jarman's death so significant that he begins
his biography with his funeral.
This dreadful book is the final nail in the coffin. Jarman ended
his days in fever and last-minute political fervour. He ...
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