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Magic, 1400s-1950s

Magic, 1400s-1950s( )
Author: Caveney, Mike
Steinmeyer, Jim
Jay, Ricky
Editor: Daniel, Noel
ISBN:978-3-8365-0977-0
Publication Date:Nov 2009
Publisher:TASCHEN
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $200.00
Book Description:

Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have 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. Long before science fiction, virtual realities, video games and the internet, the craft of magic was the most powerful fantasy world man had ever known....
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Book Details
Pages:650
Detailed Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Magick Studies
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.5 x 20 x 3 Inches
Book Weight:16.78 Pounds
Author Biography
Caveney, Mike (Author)
Ricky Jay was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. He first performed magic in public at the age of 4. At the age of 7, he appeared on a television show called Time for Pets, plopping a guinea pig into a top hat and appearing to turn it into a chicken. He left home as a teenager and worked at Lake George and at the Electric Circus.

He appeared in about 40 movies and television shows including House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, Redbelt, State and Main, Tomorrow Never Dies, Boogie Nights, and Deadwood. In the 1990s, he and Michael Weber founded the consulting firm Deceptive Practices. Their film-industry projects included a wheelchair that made Gary Sinise's Vietnam War-veteran character in Forrest Gump appear to be a double amputee.

Jay wrote several books including Cards as Weapons, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Celebrations of Curious Characters, and Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living. He died on November 24, 2018 at the age of 70.

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