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Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts

Hardback

Main Details

Title Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Conor Carville
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - poetry and poets
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781108422772
ClassificationsDewey:848.91409
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Halftones, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 12 April 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, this book traces in forensic detail the development of Beckett's understanding of painting in particular, as that understanding developed from the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.

Author Biography

Conor Carville is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Reading. His book The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity appeared in 2012 and a volume of poetry, Harm's Way, was published in 2013. His writing on art has appeared in Frieze and Circa.

Reviews

'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