Hiding The Elephant - How Magicians Invented the Impossible

Informationen zum Autor Jim Steinmeyer has designed illusions for David Copperfield, Ricky Jay, Siegfried & Roy and Orson Welles, and for six Broadway shows including The Beauty and the Beast . A consultant for a six-part BBC documentary on the history of magic and producer of a Channel 4 documentary, he designed the illusions for Richard Eyre's Mary Poppins and is a contributing editor of Magic magazine. Klappentext This is the story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's most legendary magicians: the eccentric personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear.We meet Harry Kellar, the ruthless thief of secrets who was the model for the Wizard of Oz, and PT Selbit, the first man to saw a woman in half on stage.We meet John Nevil Maskelyne, whose Egyptian Theatre was a London institution for sixty years. Hiding the Elephant is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes. Zusammenfassung Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Steinmeyer, Steinmeyer Jim
• Assisted by: William Stout (Illustration)
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.10.2005
• EAN: 9780099476641
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947664-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, History: specific events and topics, Conjuring and magic, History of Performing Arts