Absorption and Theatricality
On Ghost Trio
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:17th Mar '22
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The 1976 Television play Ghost Trio demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood.
Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art.Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It is also the play that most clearly demonstrates Beckett's imaginative and aesthetic engagement with the visual arts and the history of painting in particular. Drawing on the work of Stanley Cavell and Michael Fried, On Ghost Trio demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art. In doing so Conor Carville develops a new and highly original reading of Beckett's art, rooted in both archival sources and philosophical aesthetics.
ISBN: 9781009001175
Dimensions: 228mm x 151mm x 4mm
Weight: 114g
75 pages