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Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

Autor Jim Steinmeyer Cuvânt înainte de T. Eller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2004
Now in paperback comes Jim Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians. Lauded by today's finest magicians and critics, Hiding the Elephant is a cultural history of the efforts among legendary conjurers to make things materialize, levitate, and disappear. Steinmeyer unveils the secrets and life stories of the fascinating personalities behind optical marvels such as floating ghosts interacting with live actors, disembodied heads, and vanishing ladies. He demystifies Pepper's Ghost, Harry Kellar's Levitation of Princess Karnak, Charles Morritt's Disappearing Donkey, and Houdini's landmark vanishing of Jennie the elephant in 1918. The dramatic mix of science and history, with revealing diagrams, photographs and magicians' portraits by William Stout, provides a glimpse behind the curtain at the backstage story of magic.
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ISBN-13: 9780786714018
ISBN-10: 0786714018
Pagini: 392
Ilustrații: 65 diagrams, photographs, and portraits
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press

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Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes.