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Chroma : a book of color / Derek Jarman.

By: Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.Description: 151 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780816665938
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Contents:
White lies -- Shadow is the queen of colour -- On seeing red -- The romance of the rose and the sleep of colour -- Grey matter -- Marsilio Ficino -- Green fingers -- Alchemical colour -- How now brown cow -- The perils of yellow -- Orange tip -- Leonardo -- Into the blue -- Isaac Newton -- Purple passage -- Black arts : o mia anima nera -- Silver and gold -- Iridescence -- Translucence.
Summary: Chroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain's most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II , The Last of England , The Garden , and Wittgenstein , to the somber blacks of his collages and tar paintings, Derek Jarman has consistently used color in unprecedented ways. In his signature style, a lyrical combination of classic theory, anecdote and poetry, Jarman takes the reader through the spectrum, introducing each color as an embodiment of an emotion, evoking memories or dreams. White lies -- Shadow is the queen of colour -- On seeing red -- The romance of the rose and the sleep of colour -- Grey matter -- Marsilio Ficino -- Green fingers -- Alchemical colour -- How now brown cow -- The perils of yellow -- Orange tip -- Leonardo -- Into the blue -- Isaac Newton -- Purple passage -- Black arts : o mia anima nera -- Silver and gold -- Iridescence -- Translucence.
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White lies -- Shadow is the queen of colour -- On seeing red -- The romance of the rose and the sleep of colour -- Grey matter -- Marsilio Ficino -- Green fingers -- Alchemical colour -- How now brown cow -- The perils of yellow -- Orange tip -- Leonardo -- Into the blue -- Isaac Newton -- Purple passage -- Black arts : o mia anima nera -- Silver and gold -- Iridescence -- Translucence.

Chroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain's most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II , The Last of England , The Garden , and Wittgenstein , to the somber blacks of his collages and tar paintings, Derek Jarman has consistently used color in unprecedented ways. In his signature style, a lyrical combination of classic theory, anecdote and poetry, Jarman takes the reader through the spectrum, introducing each color as an embodiment of an emotion, evoking memories or dreams. White lies -- Shadow is the queen of colour -- On seeing red -- The romance of the rose and the sleep of colour -- Grey matter -- Marsilio Ficino -- Green fingers -- Alchemical colour -- How now brown cow -- The perils of yellow -- Orange tip -- Leonardo -- Into the blue -- Isaac Newton -- Purple passage -- Black arts : o mia anima nera -- Silver and gold -- Iridescence -- Translucence.