The Transformative Power of Performance : A New Aesthetics McKitterick Prize (2013) Cole combines common sense with

Cole combines common sense with an understanding of Nature's laws to make perspective a subject that every artist can approach with confidence

with the avoidance of complex mathematical arguments and any undue compression of material

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Romeo Castellucci

The Transformative Power of Performance : A New Aesthetics McKitterick Prize (2013) Cole combines common sense withIn 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