Contemporary Artists Respond to Samuel Beckett / Les artistes contemporains répondent à Samuel Beckett

ISBN-13: 9783034352680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025

Carla Taban

Opis

The essays gathered here deal with Samuel Beckett's constitutive legacy in contemporary art since the emergence of its expanded field in the 1960s. They discuss artworks, creative practices, and artists' discourses deeply inspired by the writer, while highlighting distinct responses to the same work and lesser-known artistic scenes. Demonstrating the ongoing interest of contemporary artists in Beckett's multidimensional oeuvre, the collection illuminates relationships between contemporary art and literature.

This collection of essays deals with the generative reception of Samuel Beckett's multidimensional body of work in the expanded field of contemporary art since its emergence in the 1960s, as shown in a range of artworks and artists' discourses from different decades, artistic scenes and cultural contexts.