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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 April 2018
      12 April 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108399852
      9781108422772
      9781108436373
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108399852
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 272 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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    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 Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, this book traces in forensic detail the development of Beckett's understanding of painting in particular, as that understanding developed from the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.

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    '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 Source: The Review of English Studies

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