David Lloyd

Beckett's Thing (eBook, PDF)

Painting and Theatre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Explores Samuel Beckett's relation to painting and the visual imagination that informs his theatrical workBeckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.Key FeaturesDiscusses Beckett's relationship with three painters crucial to his life-long dialogue with the visual artsThe first book to examine the paintings that Beckett would have known and on which he based his critical remarksAccounts for the increasing visuality of Beckett's theatre in relation to his evolving appreciation of painting and the formal questions posed by that mediumExplores Beckett's anticipation of European phenomenology and psychoanalysis in relation to Heidegger and Lacan

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474415736
• Artikelnr.: 50403861

Autorenporträt

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at U.C. Riverside and works on Irish culture and on postcolonial, cultural and aesthetic theory. His books include Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (2008) and Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (2011). He is also a poet and playwright: Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 appeared with Shearsman Books (2012); his play, The Press, premiered at Liverpool Hope University in 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Painted Stage: Beckett's Visual Aesthetics
1. Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett
2. Beckett's Thing: Bram Van Velde and the Gaze
3. "Siege laid again": Arikha's Gaze, Beckett's Painted Stage
Conclusion: The Play's the Thing
Bibliography.