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Derek Jarman - Modern Nature, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Modern Nature

Journals, 1989 – 1990

Av Derek Jarman

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On a barren coast, Derek Jarman makes a garden — and records a life in which beauty, illness, anger and memory grow side by side. After learning in 1986 that he was HIV positive, Derek Jarman began creating a garden at Prospect Cottage on the shingle coast of Dungeness. Modern Nature records that extraordinary place while moving between plants, weather, childhood memories, filmmaking, friendship, sexuality and the political realities of the AIDS crisis. The diary follows a life still crowded with creative work and public engagement as illness becomes increasingly urgent. Against hostile AIDS reporting, Section 28, the deaths of friends and repeated medical crises, Jarman returns to the garden where roses, stones, sea kale and other forms of life endure against wind and salt. For readers of literary diaries, nature writing, queer memoir and writing about HIV/AIDS, Modern Nature makes Dungeness both refuge and witness. It is a record of an artist continuing to notice, make and desire while the future grows more uncertain. 'An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century' Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Derek Jarman was born in London in 1942. His career spanned decades and genres, from painter, theatre designer, director, film maker, to poet, writer, campaigner and gardener. His features include Sebastiane (1976), Jubilee (1978), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), Edward II (1991) and Blue (1993). His paintings – for which he was a Turner Prize nominee in 1986 – continue to be exhibited worldwide, and his garden in Dungeness remains a site of pilgrimage to fans and newcomers alike. Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They’re the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Garden Against Time. Laing’s first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and in 2018 they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. They are an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and their books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

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