Bowie, Beckett, and Being

Bowie, Beckett, and Being
Author: Rodney Sharkey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501391267

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Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation. Through an exploration of their artistic practices, the study also illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms of human experience otherwise silenced by normative modes of representation. To liberate these experiences, Bowie and Beckett create alternative theatrical, musical, and philosophical spaces, which help frame the power relations of the psychological, verbal, and material places we inhabit. The result is that their work demonstrates how individuals are disciplined by the implicitly repressive social order of late capitalism, while, simultaneously, offering an informed political alternative. In making the injunctions of the social order apparent, Beckett and Bowie also transgress its terms, opening up new spaces beyond the conventional identities of family, nation, and gender, until both artists finally coalesce in the quantum space of the posthuman.

Bowie, Beckett, and Being

Bowie, Beckett, and Being
Author: Rodney Sharkey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-02-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501391240

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"The first study of the two great "outsider" artists of the twentieth century, including comparative treatment of their radical political dimensions"--

The Age of Bowie

The Age of Bowie
Author: Paul Morley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501151185

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Author and industry insider Paul Morley explores the musical and cultural legacies left behind by “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to the curators of the highly successful retrospective exhibition David Bowie is for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, constructs a definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, influenced others, invented the future, and entered history as someone who could and would never be forgotten. Morley captures the greatest moments from across Bowie’s life and career; how young Davie Jones of South London became the international David Bowie; his pioneering collaborations in the recording studio with the likes of Tony Visconti, Mick Ronson, and Brian Eno; to iconic live, film, theatre, and television performances from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, as well as the various encounters and artistic relationships he developed with musicians from John Lennon, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop to Trent Reznor and Arcade Fire. And of course, discusses in detail his much-heralded and critically acclaimed finale with the release of Blackstar just days before his shocking death in New York. Morley offers a startling biographical critique of David Bowie’s legacy, showing how he never stayed still even when he withdrew from the spotlight, how he always knew his own worth, and released a dazzling plethora of personalities, concepts, and works into the world with a single-minded determination and a voluptuous imagination to create something the likes of which the world had never seen before—and likely will never see again.

Bowie's Bookshelf

Bowie's Bookshelf
Author: John O'Connell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982112557

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Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. “An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” ―David Bowie Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’s life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie’s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O’Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie’s lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie’s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.

David Bowie

David Bowie
Author: George Tremlett
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1997
Genre: Rock musicians
ISBN: 9780099958406

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Beckett’s Art of Mismaking

Beckett’s Art of Mismaking
Author: Leland de la Durantaye
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-01-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0674504852

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Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future.

No Author Better Served

No Author Better Served
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674625228

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Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.

Samuel Beckett and The Bible

Samuel Beckett and The Bible
Author: Iain Bailey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781474250252

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From Waiting for Godot to such later novels as Ill Seen, Ill Said, the work of Samuel Beckett is filled with Biblical references. Samuel Beckett and the Bible re-appraises the relationships between Beckett's work and the Bible, exploring both as objects of history, matter and memory. Iain Bailey ranges across the Beckett oeuvre to examine how the Bible has come to be regarded as a book of unique significance in his work, offering innovative readings of intertextuality and influence in both published and archival writings. Beckett's Bibles, the book demonstrates, are thoroughly material, as significant for their involvement in histories of education, the family, common knowledge and canon-formation as for what they have to say about God, hope and salvation. The book explores Beckett's uneasy forms of memory, materiality, language and history to assess how far and in what ways the Bible matters in his work, and why Beckett's voice 'harps, but no worse than Holy Writ.'

James Beckett

James Beckett
Author: Khwezi Gule
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2009
Genre: Art, South African
ISBN:

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