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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.
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About the Author
Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies on the Interweaving of Theatre Cultures. She was President of the German Association for Theatre Studies (1991-1996) and of the International Federation for Theatre Research (1995-1999). Among her numerous publications are The Semiotics of Theatre (1992, in German 1983), The Show and the Gaze of Theatre (1997), History of European Drama and Theatre (2002, in German 1990), Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual. Exploring Forms of Political Theatre (Routledge, 2005).
Review
'Wonderfully erudite, clear and concise.' – Maria Shevtsova, Goldmsiths College, Univerisity of London, UK
'A major reference work for debates on theatre theory, performance, and methodology. Written by one of the foremost representatives of the field of theatre studies.' – Hans-Thies Lehmann, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany
‘Fisher-Lichte’s analysis is extremely thorough, and the volume contains a fantastic series of references and examples. Fisher-Lichte does not simply apply theories from other disciplines, but allows a theory to emerge from performance itself. For these reasons, despite its drawbacks, I would recommend this volume to any scholar of theatre currently hung up to hermeneutics.' – Broderick D.V.Chow, Performance Ethos, Brunel University
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0415458560
- ISBN 13 9780415458566
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A book about what performance actually does for actors and audience, focused particularly on more experimental events. So while there's no shortage of words such as autopoesis, mediatization and semioticity in The Transformative Power of Performance, it's really about simple but powerful things: among them sight, touch, smell, voices, laughter, ecstasy, reality. "When an actor playing Hamlet walks across the stage it primarily signifies the reality of the actor walking across the stage. The actor is not just pretending to walk. He is actually walking and changing reality through his act. The context alone allows for the walk to acquire another meaning - for example Hamlet walking to Gertrude's chamber." Such are the steps from which this book works up to matters such as "John Cage's event theory, Austin's establishment of the concept of the performative in linguistic theory, Judith Butler's work on performative acts and gender, the contributions of the Cambridge anthropologists to ritual study, [and] Peggy Phelan and Philip Auslander's discussions of presence", to quote the useful introduction by Marvin Carlson. The book itself is in very good condition, no markings to the text, still very tightly bound, with just a few marks of shelf wear and handling: a little bit of bumping to the corners of the covers, some faint dog-earing to the top right corner of some pages towards the back, some small creases in the bottom corner of a few pages also towards the back. The translation is by Saskya Iris Jain, and is good and lively, for example in recounting performances by the inevitable Joseph Beuys and figures lesser-known outside Germany such as Christoph Schlingensief. "When crossing the stage before the eyes of those already seated, the spectators had to take on the role of actors whether they liked it or not." Why? "The production was conceived as an experiment to empower the German citizens after sixteen years of disempowerment due to Kohl's chancellorship - it gave them public appearance as agents.". Seller Inventory # 000927
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