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Pages : 360
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The Secret Out Or, One Thousand Tricks in Drawing-room Or White Magic ... By the Author of “The Magician's Own Book,” [i.e. W. Frikell]. Translated and Edited by W. H. Cremer. With Three Hundred Illustrations
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Pages : 360
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Modern Enchantments
Author: Simon During
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674034392
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674034392
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.
The Secret Out
Author: Wiljaba Frikell
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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The Secret Out
Author: W. H. Cremer
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498026406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1878 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498026406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1878 Edition.
The Secret Out, Or, One Thousand Tricks in Drawing-room Or White Magic
Author: Wiljalba Frikell
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Category : Conjuring
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Conjuring
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Secret Out
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Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497845398
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1878 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497845398
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1878 Edition.
Principles and Deceptions
Author: Arthur Herbert Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911996401
Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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ISBN: 9780911996401
Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Secrets of an Escamoteur
Author: Harry Riser
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ISBN: 9780945296522
Category : Card tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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ISBN: 9780945296522
Category : Card tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Magical Ways and Means
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Category : Card tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Card tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Fine Art of Magic
Author: George Gilbert Kaplan
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ISBN: 9780915926145
Category : Card tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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ISBN: 9780915926145
Category : Card tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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