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Book Synopsis Secrets of an Escamoteur by : Harry Riser
Download or read book Secrets of an Escamoteur written by Harry Riser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library by : Astor Library
Download or read book Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library: A-E. 1857. v.2. F-L. 1858. v.3. M-P. 1859. v.4. Q-Z. 1861 by : Astor Library
Download or read book Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library: A-E. 1857. v.2. F-L. 1858. v.3. M-P. 1859. v.4. Q-Z. 1861 written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Astor Library Catalogue by : New York Astor Library
Download or read book Supplement to the Astor Library Catalogue written by New York Astor Library and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Book Synopsis Catalogue or alphabetical index by : New York city, Astor libr
Download or read book Catalogue or alphabetical index written by New York city, Astor libr and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Supplement ... With an Alphabetical Index of Subjects in All the Volumes. [By J. G. Cogswell.] by : Astor Library (NEW YORK)
Download or read book Supplement ... With an Alphabetical Index of Subjects in All the Volumes. [By J. G. Cogswell.] written by Astor Library (NEW YORK) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Astor Library Catalogue by : Astor Library
Download or read book Supplement to the Astor Library Catalogue written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conjuring Science by : Sofie Lachapelle
Download or read book Conjuring Science written by Sofie Lachapelle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of magic and science as they occurred in the world of popular entertainment in France from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It situates conjurers within the broader culture of science and argues that stage magic formed an important popular conduit for science and scientific enthusiasm during this period. From the scientific recreations of the fairs to the grand illusions of the theatre stage and the development of early cinema, conjurers used and were inspired by scientific and technological innovations to create illusions, provoke a sense of wonder, and often even instruct their audience. In their hands, science took on many meanings and served different purposes: it was a set of pleasant facts and recreational demonstrations upon which to draw; it was the knowledge presented in various scientific lectures accompanied by optical projections at magic shows; it was the techniques necessary to create illusions and effects on stage and later on at the cinema; and it was a way to separate conjuring from the deceit of mediums, mystical showmen and quacks in order to gain a better standing within an increasingly scientifically-minded society.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation) by : Astor Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation) written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Astor Library by : Astor Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture by : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Magic Wand and Magical Review by :
Download or read book The Magic Wand and Magical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cimaise written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Enchantments by : Simon During
Download or read book Modern Enchantments written by Simon During and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A history of “secular,” or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture” (Nicholas Daly). 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. Praise for ModernEnchantment “During documents the extent to which magic and magical thinking have pervaded, and continue to pervade, secular life . . . the author examines 19th- and 20th-century theatrical magic and “commercial conjuring” with great sensitivity to the social and cultural context in the Western world. Equally fascinating is the analysis of magic and early film.” —R. Sugarman, Choice “A richly informed, warmly argued addition to the growing number of books in which writers worry at the pervasive blurring of distinctions between act and appearance, organic consciousness and artificial intelligence, imagination and empirical experience, illusion and thought, reality TV and real life, dreams and money.” —Marina Warner, Financial Times “During moves confidently across three centuries of magic (and covers aspects of a few more besides). The sheer wealth of historical detail he provides is impressive, but no less impressive is the subtlety of his argumentation, and the suggestiveness of his claims . . . This extremely significant piece of work will appeal to literary critics, historians, and not least, devotees of magic.” —Nicholas Daly, author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880–1914
Book Synopsis The Restless Clock by : Jessica Riskin
Download or read book The Restless Clock written by Jessica Riskin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevitable. Since the seventeenth century, many thinkers have made agency, in various forms, central to science. The Restless Clock examines the history of this principle, banning agency, in the life sciences. It also tells the story of dissenters embracing the opposite idea: that agency is essential to nature. The story begins with the automata of early modern Europe, as models for the new science of living things, and traces questions of science and agency through Descartes, Leibniz, Lamarck, and Darwin, among many others. Mechanist science, Jessica Riskin shows, had an associated theology: the argument from design, which found evidence for a designer in the mechanisms of nature. Rejecting such appeals to a supernatural God, the dissenters sought to naturalize agency rather than outsourcing it to a “divine engineer.” Their model cast living things not as passive but as active, self-making machines. The conflict between passive- and active-mechanist approaches maintains a subterranean life in current science, shaping debates in fields such as evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This history promises not only to inform such debates, but also our sense of the possibilities for what it means to engage in science—and even what it means to be alive.
Download or read book Magic written by Albert Allis Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Performing Dark Arts by : Michael Mangan
Download or read book Performing Dark Arts written by Michael Mangan and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic and conjuring inhabit the boundaries and the borderlands of performance. The conjuror’s act of demonstrating the apparently impossible, the uncanny, the marvellous, or the grotesque challenges the spectator’s sense of reality. It brings him or her up against their own assumptions about how the world works; at its most extreme, it asks the spectator to re-evaluate his or her sense of the limits of the human. Performing Dark Arts is an exploration of the paradox of the conjuror, the actor who pretends to be a magician. It aims to illuminate the history of conjuring by examining it in the context of performance studies, and to throw light on aspects of performance studies by testing them against the art of conjuring. The book examines not only the performances of individual magicians from Dedi to David Blaine, but also the broader cultural contexts in which their performances were received, and the meanings which they have attracted.