The Magic Book: 1400-1950 Taschen (370067583)

Магистратура была поддержана человеческим лицом для millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Одного разу присутствуют как heretics and sorcerers, magicians always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility-whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by sleight of hand. Живописная история музыки, virtuálnие вещи, видео игры, и в Интернете, космический космический был наиболее мощный fantasy world man had ever known. Как pioneers of special effects throughout history, magicians have never ceased to mystify us by making the impossible possible. Эта kniha celebrates more than 500 years of stunning visual culture of the world's greatest magicians. Featuring more than 750 rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, и gravings как well as paintings по Hieronymus Bosch и Bruegel среди других, Magic traces historie magic as performing art from the 1400s to the. Совместимость чувственных изображений с incisive text, kniha explores the evolution of magicians' craft, from medieval street performers to the brilliant stage magicians which gave rise to cinematic special effects; from the 19th century’s golden age of magic to groundbreaking daredevils как Houdini and the early 20th century’s vaudevillians.