Transformative Power of Performance
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 f...
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 f...
