Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts, and Non-Print Media

Edited by Lois Oppenheim
Border Crossings, Volume 2 - Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Volume 2036

This collection addresses important questions that extend beyond the literary domain, including the function of art and music in Beckett's narrative and theatrical writings. It also shows Beckett's "collaborations" with composers and painters, and his work for television, radio and film.

This book addresses Beckett’s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word. The first section of the book focuses on music; the second part analyses the visual arts; and the third part examines film, radio and television. This book uncovers aspects of his thinking on, and use of the arts that have been little studied, including the nonfigurative function of music and art in Beckett’s work; the ‘collaborations’ undertaken by composers, painters and choreographers with his texts; the relation of his literary to his visual and musical artistry; and his use of film, radio and television as innovative means and celebration of artistic process.

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