David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019) and Beckett’s Thing: Theatre and Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Lloyd’s study of Aeikha is of a very high order, penetratingly rich in its detailed readings of paintings and drawings…this review fails to capture what cannot be summarized: the rich close readings of superb paintings that demonstrate by their performance both the power of aesthetic experience and what it is to see.

• Introduction: The Painted Stage: Beckett’s Visual Aesthetics; 1. Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett; 2. Beckett's Thing: Bram Van Velde and the Gaze; 3. “Siege laid again”: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage; Conclusion: The Play’s the Thing; Bibliography.

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019) and Beckett’s Thing: Theatre and Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Lloyd’s study of Aeikha is of a very high order, penetratingly rich in its detailed readings of paintings and drawings…this review fails to capture what cannot be summarized: the rich close readings of superb paintings that demonstrate by their performance both the power of aesthetic experience and what it is to see.

• Introduction: The Painted Stage: Beckett’s Visual Aesthetics; 1. Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett; 2. Beckett's Thing: Bram Van Velde and the Gaze; 3. “Siege laid again”: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage; Conclusion: The Play’s the Thing; Bibliography.

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019) and Beckett’s Thing: Theatre and Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Lloyd’s study of Aeikha is of a very high order, penetratingly rich in its detailed readings of paintings and drawings…this review fails to capture what cannot be summarized: the rich close readings of superb paintings that demonstrate by their performance both the power of aesthetic experience and what it is to see.

• Introduction: The Painted Stage: Beckett’s Visual Aesthetics; 1. Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett; 2. Beckett's Thing: Bram Van Velde and the Gaze; 3. “Siege laid again”: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage; Conclusion: The Play’s the Thing; Bibliography.