Sozita Goudouna

Beckett's Breath (eBook, ePUB)

Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett''s Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474421669
• Artikelnr.: 72413285

Autorenporträt

Sozita Goudouna is the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Performa Institute in New York and Teaching Fellow at New York University. She co-curated, with Paul B. Preciado, a project for 'The Parliament of Bodies' at Documenta 14 and worked for the Onassis Foundation in NYC.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface, David Cunningham
Introduction: In the Same Breath - From the Black Box to the White Cube and Beyond
PART I: RESPIRATION, DISCOURSE AND THE QUESTION OF MEDIUM SPECIFICITY
1. Deeptime: Breath and the Look of Non-Art
2. The Durational Turn: Absorption and the Specificity of Temporality
Part II: (RE)PRESENTING BREATH
3. Shortness of Breath: Beckett's Breath in Context
4. Emptied of Theatre: Breath and the Phenomenology of Disembodiment
Part III: THE EXHALED FIELD
5. Waste of Breath: The Readymade as a Stage Set
6. Intermedial Breath: Defying the Boundaries between Displaying and Staging
7. Investigating the Materiality of Respiration in Different Media
Conclusion: The Afterlives of Breath - Breathe, Breathe Again . . . Breathe Better
Bibliography
Index.