Modern Nature

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Modern Nature is a celebrated diary-style memoir by filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman, chronicling his life, illness, and the creation of his famous garden at Prospect Cottage.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
diary
associatedWith AIDS crisis in the United Kingdom
British independent film culture
Prospect Cottage garden
author Derek Jarman
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception widely acclaimed
describedAs celebrated diary-style memoir
describes Derek Jarman’s experience living with HIV
artistic life of Derek Jarman
creation of a garden at Prospect Cottage
genre LGBT literature
diary literature
memoir
hasForm diary entries
hasPart accounts of friends and lovers
entries about plants and landscape
reflections on illness and mortality
hasSequel Smiling in Slow Motion
hasTheme art and illness
landscape and memory
nature and mortality
queer identity
resilience in the face of illness
influenced contemporary garden writing
perception of Prospect Cottage as an artwork
isPartOf Derek Jarman’s published diaries
language English
mainSubject Derek Jarman
Dungeness
HIV/AIDS
Prospect Cottage
gardening
queer life in 1980s Britain
notableFor depiction of a garden in a shingle desert landscape
intimate account of living with AIDS
publicationDate 1991
publisher Century
Vintage Books
settingLocation Dungeness, Kent
Prospect Cottage
timePeriodDescribed early 1990s
late 1980s

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Derek Jarman notableWork Modern Nature