Derek Jarman's Garden
by Derek Jarman
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"From artist and activist Derek Jaman, a visual and narrative exploration of his singular, paradisiacal garden, set in a most inhospitable place. Derek Jarman, a passionate gardener from childhood, combined his painter's eye, horticultural expertise, and ecological convictions to produce a landscape that combined flints, shells, and driftwood to create a unique paradise. This book is Derek Jarman's own record of how this garden evolved, from its earliest beginnings in 1986 to 1994, the last show more year of his life. More than 150 photographs taken by his friend and photographer Howard Sooley capture the garden at all its different stages at every season. For both gardeners and admirers of this extraordinary man, this 30th anniversary edition, with a foreword by Jamaica Kincaid, marks three decades of the book as a gardening classic, and the ongoing impact of Jarman's transformative garden--proof of the garden space as one of ideas, philosophy, and myth--more than just a place of retreat." -- show lessTags
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Derek Jarman's garden is beautiful and odd. In the mid-1980s he bought a fisherman's cottage on Dungeness, a bleak expanse of shingle on the English south coast with views of the sea, a lighthouse and a massive nuclear power station. I visited Dungeness as a child and was fascinated by how desolate and strange the place is.
A few years ago, I visited Dungeness again with friends and we included a trip to see Derek Jarman's garden. Jarman, a painter and film director who died in the 90s, created a garden of stones, native plants and sculptures of wood and metal. It fits the landscape perfectly.
This book contains Jarman's writing about his garden right up to the last year of his life, accompanied by pictures taken by a friend of Jarman and show more the garden. It gave me a real sense of him as a person and increased my enjoyment of seeing the garden in real life. show less
A few years ago, I visited Dungeness again with friends and we included a trip to see Derek Jarman's garden. Jarman, a painter and film director who died in the 90s, created a garden of stones, native plants and sculptures of wood and metal. It fits the landscape perfectly.
This book contains Jarman's writing about his garden right up to the last year of his life, accompanied by pictures taken by a friend of Jarman and show more the garden. It gave me a real sense of him as a person and increased my enjoyment of seeing the garden in real life. show less
I read this in French (un dernier jardin) but I wish I owned it in English. The photos are wonderful.
Miss you, Derek.
ein sehr bewegendes Buch über einen sehr individuellen Garten an der steinigen Küste Südostenglands, unter den Türmen des AKW Dungeness. Ein Muss für alle, die ihren Garten dem genius loci unterordnen, die Pflanzen frei sein lassen wollen.
Aug 26, 2015 (Edited)German
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- Original publication date
- 1995
- People/Characters
- Derek Jarman
- Important places
- Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent, England, UK
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 712.6092
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- Home & Garden, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+
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- 712.6092 — Arts & recreation Area planning & landscape architecture Landscape architecture (Landscape design) Private parks and grounds; home gardens standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
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- SB455 .J36 — Agriculture Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding Plant culture Gardens and gardening
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