Jim Steinmeyer: Hiding The Elephant

Cover: 9780099476641 | Hiding The Elephant | How Magicians Invented the Impossible | Buch

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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 [...] 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 [...] 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.

Über den 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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780099476641
ISBN-10:	0099476649
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Steinmeyer, Jim
Hersteller:	Cornerstone
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	197 x 129 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Jim Steinmeyer
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.10.2005
Gewicht:	0,276 kg