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In 1986 the controversial film-maker Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive, and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the bleak coast of Dungeness, where he also wrote these journals. Looking back over his childhood, his "coming out" in the 1960s and his cinema career, the book is at once a volume of autobiography, a lament for a lost generation and a celebration of homosexuality.
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Derek Jarman's creativity spanned decades and genres - painter, theatre designer, director, film maker, writer and gardener.
From his first one-man show at the Lisson Gallery in 1969; set designs and costumes for the theatre and ballet (Jazz Calendar with Frederick Ashton at Covent Garden, Don Giovanni with John Gielgud at the London Coliseum, The Rake's Progress with Ken Russell at Teatro Communale, Florence); production design for Ken Russell's films The Devils and Savage Messiah; through his own films in super-8 before working on features: Sebastine (1976), Jubilee (1978), The Tempest (1979), The Angelic Conversation (1985), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), War Requiem (1989), The Garden (1990), Edward II (1991), Wittgenstein (1993), and Blue (1993); to directing pop-videos and live performances for Pet Shop Boys and Suede.
His paintings - for which he was a Turner Prize nominee in 1986 - have been exhibited world-wide.
His garden surrounding the fisherman's cottage in Dungeness where he spent the last years of his life remains a site of awe and pilgrimage to fans and newcomers to Jarman's singular vision.
His publications include: Dancing Ledge (1984), Kicking the Pricks (1987), Modern Nature (1991), At Your Own Risk (1992), Chroma (1994), Derek Jarman's Garden (1995).
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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My favourite Jarman book; lyrical, poetic, but also subtly subversive and radical. Not as in your face as, say, At Your Own Risk, but in the delicately and beautifully crafted prose on everything from a Kent shingle garden to nights on Hampstead Heath, Saint Derek's passion shines through.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book as I wanted to know more about the process of his garden making and how he lived with it and how he regarded the landscape around him.
I was not disappointed. This book is fantastic and rivals many fine garden writings, as well as being deeply moving regarding his attachment to the place and the necessary trips to hospital that he made due to his ailing health.
I loved it and could not put it down.
Like when I read 'The Garden', I felt I wished I'd known more of him, and I reveled in the acuity and clarity of his observations.
This is a classic.
I was not disappointed. This book is fantastic and rivals many fine garden writings, as well as being deeply moving regarding his attachment to the place and the necessary trips to hospital that he made due to his ailing health.
I loved it and could not put it down.
Like when I read 'The Garden', I felt I wished I'd known more of him, and I reveled in the acuity and clarity of his observations.
This is a classic.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When Derek Jarman died he left a wonderful legacy in these journals that he published. Modern Nature offers not only an insight in to the thinkings of this truly renaissance man (he was a successful film-maker, artist and theatre designer).It also offered a chance to explore some of the tribulations that he passed through as a gay man, who came to have AIDS.
This is wonderful testimony from a man that must not be forgotten.
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