Samuel Beckett and the visual arts / Conor Carville.
Samuel Beckett and the visual arts / Conor Carville.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2018/3214
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Beckett and the Image; 1. A Poetics of the Image: Paris and Dublin 1929-1932; 2. The Politics of the Image: Dublin, Paris, London 1931-1936; 3. Beckett's German Renaissance; 4. 'Terrifying Materiality': Watteau, Yeats, Picasso, Duchamp; 5. Impossible Im...
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"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 unpub...
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Samuel Beckett and the visual arts / Conor Carville.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/3214
Record Identifier
74VKVokj7mZl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVokj7mZl
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ISBN
1108436374 paperback
9781108422772 hardcover
1108422772 hardcover
9781108436373 paperback
DDC
848.91409
MMS ID
991024169373602626
