What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms.In 1984 at the age of 40, the polymath filmmaker Derek Jarman began to write his journals. In the first of these diaries, Dancing Ledge, we see his origins as a young artist, written with Jarmans distinctive immediacy, curiosity, and candour. Behindthescenes of his first controversial films and stage designs, at glamorous launch parties with friends like David Hockney, Ossie Clarke and Patrick Proktor, to the trials of securing funding, Dancing Ledge is a comingofage memoir for all fledgling artists.Dancing Ledge also chronicles a unique time in British history, capturing gay nightlife from the end of the war to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: APFB; Weight: 294 g; Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 17

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