{"product_id":"derek-jarman-through-the-billboard-promised-land-without-ever-stopping-lp","title":"Derek Jarman: Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCold Springs, 2026, Black LP, 500 copies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in 1971 and read here by the author himself \"Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping\" is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek Jarman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s only known work of narrative fiction. Providing a prelude to some of the imagery Jarman would use later in his career, particularly the alchemical dreamscapes in the film \"Blue\", it is a surreal, hallucinatory fairytale, signposted with elements of modernity, that has much of the mythic and archetypal about it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith tantalising autobiographical details and a panoply of chromatic landscapes and psychosexual symbols, this richly poetic story details a journey with no destination or purpose across a mythical America, undertaken by the young blind King Amethyst and his valet John.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePreviously only ever released on cassette (2022, Purge.xxx), this vinyl edition features facsimile images of the story's handwritten drafts from Jarman's archive and photos by the artist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Ginsborg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a close friend of Jarman's throughout the period of the story's writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLicensed from House Sparrow Press \/ Prototype Publishing, and The Estate of Derek Jarman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLtd x 500 copies on heavyweight 180gm black vinyl in gloss sleeve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58369041138048,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/csr358lp_750-500x500.jpg?v=1782997355","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/derek-jarman-through-the-billboard-promised-land-without-ever-stopping-lp","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}