David Lloyd, Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre

In Beckett’s Thing: Theatre and Painting (2016), David Lloyd sheds new light on Samuel Beckett’s aesthetic ties to painting, which the writer himself describes in his essays about art, reconsidering the relationship between the subject behind representation and the object of representation. Startin...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc,
Autor principal: Bénard, Julie
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Études britanniques contemporaines 2019
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:In Beckett’s Thing: Theatre and Painting (2016), David Lloyd sheds new light on Samuel Beckett’s aesthetic ties to painting, which the writer himself describes in his essays about art, reconsidering the relationship between the subject behind representation and the object of representation. Starting from the premise that the object won’t be laid bare as long as the subject’s possessive gaze and instrumental way to represent it prevails, Lloyd does away with the consensual and somewhat simpli...