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Derek Jarman's garden at Dungeness draws thousands of visitors every year. It is a weird and windswept place, a small garden beside a humble cottage. But between the pebbles of the beach Jarman grew all manner of plants - some were burnt by wind and sea-spray, whilst others flourished creating brilliant, unexpected beauty in the wilderness. A filmmaker, writer and icon of his day, Jarman explores through this exquisite diary of his garden the nature of art, politics, life and death.
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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: Sebastiane (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 worldwide. His garden surrounding the fisherman's cottage in Dungeness wherehe spent the last years of his life remains a site of awe and pilgrimage to fans and newcomers to Jarman's singular vision.
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"The most beautiful & furious book of all time" -- Olivia Laing "An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century" -- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Gallery "A marvellous, moving book" * Sunday Telegraph * "Jarman gave his garden a certain narrative; perhaps he treated it a bit like a film or theatre set. His films were visionary, eccentric, romantic and rebellious, all of which could also be said about his garden" * Guardian * "It's hard not to warm to the man who, in the face of all the personal and professional hardships described in this book, can still regard himself as 'the most fortunate film-maker of my generation" * Guardian *
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 178487387X
- ISBN 13 9781784873875
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