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Author Goudouna, Sozita, author.

Title Beckett's Breath : anti-theatricality and the visual arts / Sozita Goudouna.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Copyright; BECKETT'S BREATH; contents; Acknowledgements; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: IN THE SAME BREATH − FROM THE BLACK BOX TO THE WHITE CUBE AND BEYOND; PART I RESPIRATION, DISCOURSE AND THE QUESTION OF MEDIUM SPECIFICITY; 1 DEEPTIME: BREATH AND THE LOOK OF NON-ART; 2 THE DURATIONAL TURN: ABSORPTION AND THE SPECIFICITY OF TEMPORALITY; PART II (RE)PRESENTING BREATH; 3 SHORTNESS OF BREATH: BECKETT'S BREATH IN CONTEXT; 4 EMPTIED OF THEATRE: BREATH AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF DISEMBODIMENT; PART III THE EXHALED FIEL; 5 WASTE OF BREATH: THE READYMADE AS A STAGE SET
6 INTERMEDIAL BREATH: DEFYING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN DISPLAYING AND STAGING7 INVESTIGATING THE MATERIALITY OF RESPIRATION IN DIFFERENT MEDIA; CONCLUSION: THE AFTERLIVES OF BREATH: BREATHE, BREATHE AGAIN ... BREATHE BETTER; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Summary This book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse.
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Subject Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Breath.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
Art, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Themes, motives.
Minimalism (Literature)
Minimalism (Literature)
Minimal art.
Minimal art.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781474421652 (electronic book)
1474421652 (electronic book)
9781474421645
1474421644
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