1 option
Beckett's Breath : anti-theatricality and the visual arts / Sozita Goudouna.
LIBRA PR6003.E282 Z6667 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goudouna, Sozita, author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Breath.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Modern.
- Themes, motives.
- Minimalism (Literature).
- Minimal art.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Samuel Beckett wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. The piece became emblematic of interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. This study considers a wide range of possibilities of understanding and redefining the context in which the corporeal function of breathing is represented in art. Breath is examined here both as a minimalist art work that contributes to the debates on minimalism and (anti)theatricality led by Michael Fried as well as a text for and related to contemporary art production. Beckett's Breath attends to fifty breath-related artworks - including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art - and contextualises Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Respiration, Discourse and the Question of Medium Specificity
- 1 Deeptime: Breath and the Look of Non-Art 45
- 2 The Durational Turn: Absorption and the Specificity of Temporality 79
- Part II (Re)Presenting Breath
- 3 Shortness of Breath: Beckett's Breath in Context 105
- 4 Emptied of Theatre: Breath and the Phenomenology of Disembodiment 120
- Part III The Exhaled Field
- 5 Waste of Breath: The Readymade as a Stage Set 141
- 6 Intermedial Breath: Defying the Boundaries between Displaying and Staging 148
- 7 Investigating the Materiality of Respiration in Different Media 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474421645
- 1474421644
- OCLC:
- 1023538968
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.