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



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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Page: 384
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 ...

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