Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts

ISBN-13: 9781108422772 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Conor Carville

Opis

This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

Recenzje

'Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts convincingly shows that knowledge about Beckett's engagement with visual art will be essential for how future critics will answer these questions.' Kevin Brazil, The Review of English Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: Beckett and the image; 1. A poetics of the image: Paris and Dublin 1929–1932; 2. The politics of the image: Dublin, Paris, London 1931–1936; 3. Beckett's German Renaissance; 4. 'Terrifying materiality': Watteau, Yeats, Picasso, Duchamp; 5. Impossible image: Watt and failed ekphrasis; 6. From Bram van Velde to The Unnamable; 7. 'Sordid abstraction': prose, plays, paintings.