Tom Phillips’s illustrations for the Folio edition of Waiting for Godot

In the light of the imagery associated with Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, in set designs, posters and book covers, the present article examines Tom Phillips’s  illustrations for the Folio Society edition of Waiting for Godot (2000). Considering that Phillips’s images embody a particular style...

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Main Authors: Claudia Parra, Peter James Harris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2018-06-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/53979
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Summary:In the light of the imagery associated with Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, in set designs, posters and book covers, the present article examines Tom Phillips’s  illustrations for the Folio Society edition of Waiting for Godot (2000). Considering that Phillips’s images embody a particular style in form and structure, functioning as pictorial elements recalling contexts, images and relations, we propose that the artist predicates his work on the premise that readers will have had previous contact with the play either in performance or as a text.
ISSN:0101-4846
2175-8026