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 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. 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 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; 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