Author: Milbourne Christopher
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A discussion of some of history's famous practitioners of magic.
Panorama of Magic
Author: Milbourne Christopher
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A discussion of some of history's famous practitioners of magic.
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A discussion of some of history's famous practitioners of magic.
Magic Lantern, Panorama and Moving Picture Shows in Ireland, 1786-1909
Author: Kevin Rockett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846823152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is the first volume in a two-volume set on the history of cinema in Ireland from the 18th century to the present day (the second companion volume is titled Film Exhibition and Distribution in Ireland, 1909-2010). What the book demonstrates is that prior to cinema there were already huge numbers of people in Ireland, from all classes, who regularly enjoyed proto-cinematic experiences through such entertainments as the magic lantern, or slide projector; the immersive large-scale paintings known as panoramas; and tableaux vivants, or theatrical-posed static representations of paintings, statues, and events. Without these entertainments - many developed by Irish inventors and pioneers - not only would cinema's moving-pictures have been unimaginable, but so, too, would the cinema space itself and the distribution of film. Ultimately, the book is offered as a contribution towards a deeper understanding of popular visual culture (and its intersection with science) in Ireland from the 18th-century onwards. *** "Kevin Rockett and Emer Rockett's book is a richly researched, engaging...picture of visual and optical entertainments in Ireland, ranging from the first phantasmagoria shows in the 1790s to the establishment of the first purpose-built cinemas....The authors build on recent work influenced by the idea that the site of an exhibition helped determine not only how it took place, but the meanings it produced and the experience of its audience." - Victorian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 1, Autumn 2014Ã?Â?Ã?Â?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846823152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is the first volume in a two-volume set on the history of cinema in Ireland from the 18th century to the present day (the second companion volume is titled Film Exhibition and Distribution in Ireland, 1909-2010). What the book demonstrates is that prior to cinema there were already huge numbers of people in Ireland, from all classes, who regularly enjoyed proto-cinematic experiences through such entertainments as the magic lantern, or slide projector; the immersive large-scale paintings known as panoramas; and tableaux vivants, or theatrical-posed static representations of paintings, statues, and events. Without these entertainments - many developed by Irish inventors and pioneers - not only would cinema's moving-pictures have been unimaginable, but so, too, would the cinema space itself and the distribution of film. Ultimately, the book is offered as a contribution towards a deeper understanding of popular visual culture (and its intersection with science) in Ireland from the 18th-century onwards. *** "Kevin Rockett and Emer Rockett's book is a richly researched, engaging...picture of visual and optical entertainments in Ireland, ranging from the first phantasmagoria shows in the 1790s to the establishment of the first purpose-built cinemas....The authors build on recent work influenced by the idea that the site of an exhibition helped determine not only how it took place, but the meanings it produced and the experience of its audience." - Victorian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 1, Autumn 2014Ã?Â?Ã?Â?
Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018519
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018519
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Magic
Author: Milbourne Christopher
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486263731
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Most profusely illustrated history of stage magic -- from ancient Egypt to Houdini. Rare photographs, woodcuts, broadsides, advertisements, illustrations of costumes, stage settings, apparatus, etc. 295 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486263731
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Most profusely illustrated history of stage magic -- from ancient Egypt to Houdini. Rare photographs, woodcuts, broadsides, advertisements, illustrations of costumes, stage settings, apparatus, etc. 295 illustrations.
Queen of the Fairies
Author: Jake Jackson
Publisher: JG Press
ISBN: 9781844517978
Category : Pop-up books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
All the creatures of the forest gather round in awe as the young Queen of the Fairies surveys her realm, dressed in the finest gossamer threads, with a crown of flowers and her magical wand. Jean and Ron Henry's charming painting comes alive with this incredible pop-up scene, including intriguing flaps hiding more delights and tabs for interactive play.
Publisher: JG Press
ISBN: 9781844517978
Category : Pop-up books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
All the creatures of the forest gather round in awe as the young Queen of the Fairies surveys her realm, dressed in the finest gossamer threads, with a crown of flowers and her magical wand. Jean and Ron Henry's charming painting comes alive with this incredible pop-up scene, including intriguing flaps hiding more delights and tabs for interactive play.
Medieval Panorama
Author: Robert Bartlett
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892366422
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"This book also includes biographies of key personalities, from Charlemagne to Wycliffe, timelines, maps, glossary, gazetteer, and bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892366422
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"This book also includes biographies of key personalities, from Charlemagne to Wycliffe, timelines, maps, glossary, gazetteer, and bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
Panorama of Magic
Author: Milbourne Christopher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
More Than Meets the Eye
Author: Gabriele Koller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783948137083
Category : Panoramas
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783948137083
Category : Panoramas
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Magic of the Rainbow
Author: Judy Katschke
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780794412159
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's Barbie sticker fun time! Based on the latest direct-to-video "Barbie Fairytopia" movie, the new title in this best-selling series comes alive. Girls can follow Elina as she learns the Flight of Spring to save Fairytopia, and then create their own version of the story with reusable stickers and a two-sided playboard - sure to inspire hours of creative play! + 16-page full color storybook / over 20 reusable paper stickers to create multiple scenes + A double-sided vivid panoramic backdrop for sticker play that folds out from back cover + Interactive - kids place their stickers on the sticker board to recreate the story in the storybook.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780794412159
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's Barbie sticker fun time! Based on the latest direct-to-video "Barbie Fairytopia" movie, the new title in this best-selling series comes alive. Girls can follow Elina as she learns the Flight of Spring to save Fairytopia, and then create their own version of the story with reusable stickers and a two-sided playboard - sure to inspire hours of creative play! + 16-page full color storybook / over 20 reusable paper stickers to create multiple scenes + A double-sided vivid panoramic backdrop for sticker play that folds out from back cover + Interactive - kids place their stickers on the sticker board to recreate the story in the storybook.
Chora 1
Author: Alberto Pérez Gómez
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773511934
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Volume I in the new series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773511934
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Volume I in the new series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture.