The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics
by FISCHER-LICHTE; ERIKAEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2008-07-29
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
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, and through them even wider social and cultural processes. With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original Ästhetik des Performativen addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a new appreciation of the artistic event.
Author Biography
Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies on the Interweaving of Theatre Cultures
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. viii |
| Introduction: Perspectives on performance: Germany and America | p. 1 |
| The transformative power of performance | p. 11 |
| Explaining concepts: performativity and performance | p. 24 |
| Shared bodies, shared spaces: the bodily co-presence of actors and spectators | p. 38 |
| The performative generation of materiality | p. 75 |
| The emergence of meaning | p. 138 |
| The performance as event | p. 161 |
| The reenchantment of the world | p. 181 |
| Notes | p. 208 |
| Bibliography | p. 216 |
| Index of works | p. 224 |
| Index of names | p. 227 |
| Subject index | p. 230 |
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