{"id":86631,"date":"2018-04-27T17:59:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/olivia-laing-theres-no-book-i-love-more-than-derek-jarmans-modern-nature\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:07:06","slug":"olivia-laing-theres-no-book-i-love-more-than-derek-jarmans-modern-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/olivia-laing-theres-no-book-i-love-more-than-derek-jarmans-modern-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Laing: 'There's no book I love more than Derek Jarman\u2019s Modern Nature'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWild, honest, riotous, the film-maker\u2019s diary showed me what it meant to be an artist, to be political \u2013 and how to plant a gardenThere\u2019s no book I love more than Derek Jarman\u2019s Modern Nature. There\u2019s nothing I\u2019ve read as often, or that has shaped me so deeply. I first came to it a year or two after its publication in 1991, certainly before Jarman\u2019s death in 1994. It was my sister Kitty who introduced me to his work. She was 10 or 11 then and I was 12, maybe 13.Strange kids. My mother was gay, and we lived on an ugly new development in a village near Portsmouth, where all the culs-de-sac were named after the fields they had destroyed. We were happy together, but the world outside felt flimsy, inhospitable, permanently grey. I hated my girls\u2019 school, with its prying teachers. This was the era of section 28 (of the 1988 Local Government Act), which banned local authorities from \u201cpromoting\u201d homosexuality and schools from teaching its acceptability \u201cas a pretended family relationship\u201d. Designated by the state as a pretended family, we lived under its malign rule, its imprecation of exposure and imminent disaster. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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