The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics

by Erika Fischer-Lichte

Book Overview

In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.

The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes - blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life - is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415458560
• ISBN13: 9780415458566
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"