Ebook: Samuel Beckett and the visual arts

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beckett and the Image; Chapter 1 A Poetics of the Image: Paris and Dublin 1929-1932; Chapter 2 The Politics of the Image: Dublin, Paris, London 1931-1936; Chapter 3 Beckett's German Renaissance; Chapter 4 'Terrifying Materiality': Watteau, Yeats, Picasso, Duchamp; Chapter 5 Impossible Image: Watt and Failed Ekphrasis; Chapter 6 From Bram van Velde to The Unnamable; Chapter 7 'Sordid Abstraction': Prose, Plays, Paintings; Bibliography; Works by Samuel Beckett.;This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.