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

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

Author: Jim Steinmeyer
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Book Title
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Author
Jim Steinmeyer
ISBN
9780786714018
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Jim SteinmeyerPublisher: Da Capo PressPublished: 09/15/2004ISBN: 9780786714018Pages: 362Weight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.55w x 1.08d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jim Steinmeyer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 09/15/2004
ISBN: 9780786714018
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.55w x 1.08d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jim Steinmeyer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 09/15/2004
ISBN: 9780786714018
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.55w x 1.08d