Beckett's Thing: Painting and Theatre

by David Lloyd

Book Overview

Explores Samuel Beckett's relation to painting and the visual imagination that informs his theatrical work
Beckett 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474431496
• ISBN13: 9781474431491
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"