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Derek Jarman: Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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What I've Learned in the Book Is 66 Plans for a Picnic

I spoke the idea of what Derek was like as a maker in an age which is really and it seems extraordinary now but how analog culture was until very very recently. When you look at the work that Derek and this is 66 this is just after the slate the work that he's doing there is really quite utopian producing these utopian landscapes. So anyway there's a whole sort of connectivity which for me it's really interesting when you put Derek against the d the exploded city which he was living in, I mean they were just derelictYou know so Michael Bracewell writes about this really beautiful in souvenirs book about the 80s and 90s in LondonHow revolutionary that seems about central London

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