Samuel Beckett's Art
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1967
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The Painted Word
Author : Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472111176
Book Description
Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts
Author : Conor Carville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108526411
Book Description
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts is the first book to comprehensively assess Beckett's knowledge of art, art history and art criticism. In his lifetime Beckett thought deeply about visual culture from ancient Egyptian statuary to Dutch realism, from Quattrocento painting to the modernists and after. Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, this book traces in forensic detail the development of Beckett's understanding of painting in particular, as that understanding developed from the late 1920s to the 1970s. In doing so it demonstrates that Beckett's thinking about art and aesthetics radically changes in the course of his life, often directly responding to the intellectual and historical contexts in which he found himself. Moving fluently between art history, philosophy, literary analysis and historical context, Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts rethinks the trajectory of Beckett's career, and reorients his relationship to modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes.
Samuel Beckett and the Arts
Author : Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000378519
Book Description
This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett’s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word. The first section of the book focuses on music; the second part analyses the visual arts; and the third part examines film, radio and television. This book uncovers aspects of his thinking on, and use of the arts that have been little studied, including the nonfigurative function of music and art in Beckett’s work; the ‘collaborations’ undertaken by composers, painters and choreographers with his texts; the relation of his literary to his visual and musical artistry; and his use of film, radio and television as innovative means and celebration of artistic process.
Beckett’s Art of Mismaking
Author : Leland de la Durantaye
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674504852
Book Description
Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future.
Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats
Author : Gordon S. Armstrong
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780838751411
Book Description
In contrast to the many critics who consider W. B. Yeats a dominant influence on Beckett's drama, this study demonstrates that the two are almost diametrically opposed in their theater and that the real bridge to Beckett's art is to be found in the narrative and pictorial creations of the younger Yeats brother, Jack.
Art and the Artist in the Works of Samuel Beckett
Author : Hannah Case Copeland
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Description
Accommodating the Chaos
Author : J. E. Dearlove
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Beckett's Art of Salvage
Author : Julie Bates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107167043
Book Description
Introduction: Miscellaneous Rubbish -- Relics -- Heirlooms -- Props -- Treasure -- Conclusion
Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art
Author : Robert Reginio
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 9783838210797
Book Description
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art--he is, in fact, a contemporary artist, working alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. The volume explores Beckett's formal experiments in drama, prose, and other media as contemporary, parallel revisions of modernism's theoretical presuppositions congruent with trends like minimalism and conceptual art. Containing interviews with and pieces by working artists, alongside contributions of scholars of literature and the visual arts, this collection offers an essential reassessment of Beckett's work. Perceiving Beckett's ongoing importance from the perspective of contemporary art practices, dominated by installation and conceptual strategies, it offers a completely new frame through which to read perennial Beckettian themes of impotence, failure, and penury. From Beckett's remains, as it were, contemporary artists find endless inspiration.
