Contemporary Artists Respond to Samuel Beckett/ Les artiste contemporains répondent à Samuel Beckett
Six Essays/ Six essais
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents / Table des matières
- List of illustrations / Table des illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Préface et remerciements
- | 1 | “Play it again, Sam”: Undoing and redoing Samuel Beckett’s Molloy in contemporary art
- | 2 | Transpositions de l’œuvre de Beckett dans l’art contemporain au Québec, 2000–2010
- | 3 | Water marks: Water as material in two twenty-first-century Beckettian site-specific installations
- | 4 | Une Catastrophe de Rien du tout ou De « l’anarchie de l’imagination » : Les artistes Maya Schweizer et Clemens von Wedemeyer répondent avec Beckett et Fassbinder aux émeutes des banlieues
- | 5 | Samuel Beckett and/in contemporary art: Joseph Kosuth’s series of installations-exhibitions Samuel Beckett, in play (2010–2011–2012)
- Appendix 5.1
- Appendix 5.2
- Appendix 5.3
- | 6 | Kentridge’s Beckett
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Samuel Beckett’s body of work—that spans a number of literary genres, artistic mediums, languages of composition and self-translation, as well as cultural contexts—has enjoyed a continuous and diverse reception in contemporary art since the emergence of the field in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Artists, art critics, art historians, and art theorists responded early to the author’s work worldwide, using it as a point of reference, either positive or negative, in their creative and discursive endeavors of radically redefining all parameters of art. The “founding reception” (Mougin 2022; Mougin 2023) of Beckett’s oeuvre in contemporary art played a seminal role in the very constitution of the field, while at the same time triggering its ongoing operativity within it, to reach ever more artistic, art-discursive, and art-curatorial projects (see Goudouna 2018; Jones, Reginio, and Weiss 2017; Knüppel 2018; Taban 2013).1 This particularly generative interface between art and literature since the second half of the twentieth century began to be studied more or less systematically only at the turn of the twenty-first, and mainly with reference to contemporary art in the United States and Western Europe. Although contributions to the scholarship on the topic are becoming substantial, much remains to be explored to complete our still piecemeal and blurry picture of Beckett’s role in Western and especially non-Western contemporary art.
Details
- Pages
- XXII, 132
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783034353755
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783034353762
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783034352680
- DOI
- 10.3726/b22397
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2025 (January)
- Keywords
- littérature littérature comparée contemporary art Samuel Beckett art literature relationships comparative literature / art contemporain rapports art
- Published
- New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2025. XXII, 132 pp., 21 b/w ill.
- Product Safety
- Peter Lang Group AG
