{"product_id":"becketts-breath-sozita-goudouna-9781474452700","title":"Beckett's Breath: Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExamines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e with the visual arts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text\u003csup\u003e \u003c\/sup\u003eexamined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. The book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Features\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamines Beckett's ultimate venture to define the borders between a theatrical performance and purely visual representation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJuxtaposes Beckett's \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e with breath-related artworks by prominent visual artists who investigate the far-reaching potential of the representation of respiration by challenging modernist essentialism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe focus on this primary human physiological function and its relation to arts and culture is highly pertinent to studies of human performance, the nature of embodiment and its relation to cultural expression\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFacilitates new intermedial discourses around the nature and aesthetic possibilities of breath, the minimum condition of existence, at the interface between the visual arts and performance practices and their relation to questions of spectacle, objecthood and materiality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sozita Goudouna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474452701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474452700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.30d","brand":"Sozita Goudouna","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987745177855,"sku":"9781474452700","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ded32c17-47c1-42c1-a26c-54fc0c296fa7.jpg?v=1683290736","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/becketts-breath-sozita-goudouna-9781474452700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}