The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue with Art (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

"This groundbreaking new study considers Samuel Beckett as a "profoundly visual" writer whose work reflects a preoccupation with the visual as creative model. While much as been written on Beckett's fiction and drama, almost nothing has appeared on his writings on art, on his preferences in painting, and on his many indirect collaborations with painters. Yet Beckett's thinking on art had everything to do with his aims as a creative writer.". "Broadly interdisciplinary, The Painted Word sheds light on Beckett's references to and exploration of the visual arts in his creative work and on the dramatic and fictive compositional strategies he shared with a number of artists. The book will appeal to scholars familiar with Beckett's work and to those interested in the dynamics of word and image interconnections."--BOOK JACKET.