Samuel Beckett: A Curated Life claims that Beckett's innovations in sound, moving image and installation, often dismissed as marginalia by traditional textual scholarship, establish his work as a key precursor to much of today's contemporary art. This book will also trace lines of affiliation in the works of contemporary artists such as Janet Cardiff, Stan Douglas and Gerard Byrne and Beckett's creative collaborations with influential photographers such as Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson and Avedo. Recognizing Beckett as a vital participant in the development of 20th century aesthetics, this study overturns the image of Beckett as the reluctant author 'damned to fame'.