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The Transformative Power of Performance : A New Aesthetics The Crown Publishing Group In a hedonistic age fullIn 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