Contemporary artists respond to Samuel Beckett : six essays = Les artistes contemporains répondent à Samuel Beckett : six essais /

"The essays gathered here deal with Samuel Beckett's constitutive legacy in contemporary art since the emergence of its expanded field in the 1960s. They discuss artworks, creative practices, and artists' discourses deeply inspired by the writer, while highlighting distinct responses...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Taban, Carla (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English French
Language Notes:	In English and French.
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, [2025]
Subjects:	Arts, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives. Arts, Modern > 21st century > Themes, motives. Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Influence. Art and literature. Arts > 20e siècle > Thèmes, motifs. Arts > 21e siècle > Thèmes, motifs. Art et littérature.

Table of Contents:

"Play it again, Sam" : Undoing and redoing Samuel Beckett's Molloy in contemporary art
Transpositions de l'oeuvre de Beckett dans l'art contemporain au Québec, 2000-2010
Water marks : Water as material in two twenty-first-century Beckettian site-specific installations
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
Samuel Beckett and/in contemporary art : Joseph Kosuth' series of installations-exhibitions Samuel Beckett, in play (2010-2011-2012)
Kentridge's Beckett.