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Product Identifiers

PublisherThames & Hudson

ISBN-100500027234

ISBN-139780500027233

eBay Product ID (ePID)26064059062

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

TopicPerforming Arts, Antiques & Collectibles

AuthorGilbert Mccarragher

IllustratorYes

Dimensions

Item Height1 In.

Item Length9.8 In.

Item Weight29.5 Oz

Item Width7.1 In.

Additional Product Features

Publication Year2024

Dewey Edition23

FormatHardcover

Book TitleProspect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House

Dewey Decimal791.430233092

Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisThe world-famous garden made by Derek Jarman at his home, Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, is much visited and widely featured, but the house has long remained closed to the public. We are now finally permitted to open the door onto this previously undisturbed, unseen world, itself an artistic testament. The background to the book is a poignant story of love and loss. After Derek Jarman's death, Prospect Cottage passed to his longtime companion Keith Collins, who changed only one thing: introducing curtains to prevent visitors to the garden from peering in. When Collins died suddenly in 2018, Gilbert McCarragher, a friend and neighbor in Dungeness, was asked to record this world. This was the first time a photographer had so extensively documented the house, an artwork in its own right, which encapsulates Jarman's vision of the world. Organized room by room, McCarragher's photographs are accompanied by reflective essays that take the reader inside the cottage and reveal something of its history and the experience of photographing there. McCarragher compares the house to a camera, with a dark interior and light coming in through various openings, carefully measured and calculated by the filmmaker. If Jarman's garden is key to his lively and life-affirming outside universe, the house is a bit like his soul, a microcosm of his worldview., 'Its exterior is one of the most photographed in Britain - but the inside of the artist and director's home has seldom been seen, until now... a riveting portrait of the later years of an important British artist' Sunday Times Over a near-decade from 1986, the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman and his partner Keith Collins created a home and sanctuary at Prospect Cottage. After Jarman's death in 1994, Collins hung net curtains to shield the home they had shared from the eyes of visitors to Prospect's world-famous garden. In 2018, the photographer Gilbert McCarragher, a friend and neighbour in Dungeness, was asked to record the house, a vital artwork in its own right. It was the first time this private world had been so extensively chronicled. Unfolding room by room, McCarragher's photographs are accompanied by reflective essays that take the reader inside Prospect Cottage, revealing something of its history and his experience of photographing there., Thirty years after DerekJarman's death, we arefinally allowed inside thehouse that encapsulates thefilmmaker's vision of the world.

LC Classification NumberPN1998.3.J3P7 2024

Number of Pages192 pages