This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in
contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page stage
and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art-he is
in fact a contemporary artist working alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s
1970s and beyond. The volume explores Beckett's formal experiments in drama prose and other
media as contemporary parallel revisions of modernism's theoretical presuppositions congruent
with trends like Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Containing interviews with and pieces by
working artists alongside contributions of scholars of literature and the visual arts this
collection offers an essential reassessment of Beckett's work. Perceiving Beckett's ongoing
importance from the perspective of contemporary art practices dominated by installation and
conceptual strategies it offers a completely new frame through which to read perennial
Beckettian themes of impotence failure and penury. From Beckett's remains as it were
contemporary artists find endless inspiration.
