Samuel Beckett and the Visual

Samuel Beckett and the Visual
Author: Conor Carville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108422772

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

The Painted Word

The Painted Word
Author: Lois Oppenheim
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780472111176

Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression

Samuel Beckett and the Arts

Samuel Beckett and the Arts
Author: Lois Oppenheim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000378519

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

Beckett’s Art of Mismaking
Author: Leland de la Durantaye
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-01-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0674504852

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 and Contemporary Art

Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art
Author: David Houston Jones
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783838208497

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.

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett
Author: Fionnuala Croke
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The National Gallery of Ireland was one of Samuel Beckett's favorite Dublin haunts. He whiled away many hours there and was particularly drawn to works by Perugino, Poussin, Rembrandt, and Rubeens. Encouraged by his friend Thomas MacGreevy, who later became director of the Gallery, Beckett developed a life-long passion for art. Essays trace Beckett's interest in art from its origins in the National Gallery, through his admiration for the work of Jack B. Yeats, to his art criticism and associations with contemporary artists including Bram van Velde, Alberto Giacometti, and Avigdor Arikha. The book concludes with the proceedings of the round table discussion "Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts." Contributors include Nicholas Allen, John Banville, Riann Coulter, Dellas Henke, Charles Klabunde, James Knowlson, R(c)mi Labrusse, David Lloyd, Breon Mitchell, Lois Oppenheim, Peggy Phelan, and Susan Schreibman.

Accommodating the Chaos

Accommodating the Chaos
Author: J. E. Dearlove
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1982
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: