{"product_id":"blue","title":"Blue","description":"\u003cp class=\"text-black-100 text-sm md:text-md\"\u003eBy Derek Jarman. Introduction by Michael Charlesworth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-black-100 text-sm md:text-md\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-semibold\"\u003eDerek Jarman's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eweaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-black-100 text-sm md:text-md\"\u003e“For\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethere are no boundaries or solutions.” —Derek Jarman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-black-100 text-sm md:text-md\"\u003eOriginally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s death due to an AIDS-related illness,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a daring and powerful work of art. The film and its script, as reproduced in this volume, serve as an impassioned response to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-black-100 text-sm md:text-md\"\u003eJarman's Blue moves through myriad scenes, some banal, others fantastical. Stories of quotidian life––getting coffee, reading the newspaper, and walking down the sidewalk––escalate to visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow. Facing death and a cascade of pills, Jarman presents his illness in delirium and metaphors. He contemplates the physicality of emotions in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to Blue—a color, a feeling, a funk. Michael Charlesworth's compelling introduction brings\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einto conversation with Jarman’s visual paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-black-100 text-sm md:text-md\"\u003ePublished by David Zwirner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59131484209486,"sku":"9781644230886","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0167\/9794\/files\/blue_jar.jpg?v=1773488653","url":"https:\/\/www.theimmashop.com\/products\/blue","provider":"IMMA Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}