Illusions: The Art of Magic
Illusions: The Art of Magic

Author: Christian Vachon

Publisher: 5Continents

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9788874397587

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In 2015 the McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada, was gifted with the Allan Slaight Collection, one of the largest treasuries of posters and documents on magic in the world. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Illusions. The Art of Magic at the McCord Museum, this volume presents 250 exceptional posters from this collection, dating from the 1880s to the 1940s. During this period, known as the Golden Age of Magic, droves of traveling magicians and prestidigitators fought a veritable advertising war. All over the United States and Europe, city walls and billboards were plastered with posters offering tantalizing previews of their most spectacular tricks, giving poster designers and printers of the era a golden opportunity to flex their imaginations and load their work with devils and demons, skeletons and skulls, bodies and decapitated heads, playing-cards and rabbits, alluring assistants, phantasmagoria and esoteric symbols. Seven authors recognized as experts in their respective fields introduce this dazzling array of color and fantastic imagery, providing insights to explain the full historic, social and artistic value of these magnificent posters.

That Old Black Magic
That Old Black Magic

Author: Tom Clavin

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1569768137

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Both a love story and a tribute to the entertainment mecca, this exploration shines a spotlight on one of the hottest acts in Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The illuminating depiction showcases the unlikely duo--a grizzled, veteran trumpeter and vocalist molded by Louis Armstrong and a meek singer in the church choir--who went on to invent "The Wildest." Bringing together broad comedy and finger-snapping, foot-stomping music that included early forays into rock and roll, Prima and Smith's act became wildly popular and attracted all kinds of star-studded attention. In addition to chronicling their relationships with Ed Sullivan, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and other well-known entertainers of the day--and their performance of "That Old Black Magic" at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration--the narrative also examines the couple's ongoing influence in the entertainment world. Running concurrent with their personal tale is their role in transforming Las Vegas from a small resort town in the desert to a booming city where the biggest stars were paid tons of money to become even bigger stars on stage and television.

Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus

Author: Paul Kieve

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780747590897

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Paul is obsessed with magic. Ever since he was given a magic set at the age of ten, he has been buying magic books, props and posters and honing his skills as a magician. He keeps all his magical paraphernalia in his house in Hackney, right around the corner from the magnificent Hackney Empire, a venue played at by all the great illusionists of the golden era of magic, some hundred years ago. One day, Paul is on the phone to his friend, sitting in his 'Poster Room', and chatting about how well his magic show from the night before went, when he gets a strange sensation . . . Suddenly, the huge figure of Alexander steps out of the poster and starts telling Paul off for getting too big for his boots! Alexander and the other brilliant magicians in the posters are going to show Paul what magic is really about!

Secrets of Conjuring and Magic
Secrets of Conjuring and Magic

Author: Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1108032400

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This 1877 translation of Robert-Houdin's 1868 conjuring manual reveals the techniques used in popular stage performances during the Victorian period.

Carter Beats the Devil
Carter Beats the Devil

Author: Glen David Gold

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2009-07-23

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 1848944101

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Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic and Carter's stunts become increasingly audacious. Until the night President Harding takes part in Carter's act only to die two hours later, and Carter finds himself pursued not only by the Secret Service but by a host of others desperate for the terrible secret they believe Harding confided in him. Seamlessly blending reality and fiction, Gold lays before us a glittering and romantic panorama of our modern world at a point of irrevocable change.

Trash
Trash

Author: Jacques Boyreau

Publisher:

Published: 2002-06

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Free your mind, and the trash will follow."--BOOK JACKET.

Art of Skiing OP
Art of Skiing OP

Author: Gex J. de

Publisher: Palazzo Editions

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780957148376

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"The graphic art of the posters advertising this burgeoning sport have become collectors' items. [This] is a beautiful collection of the finest examples of poster art. Organized by country and resort, it uses posters from the Beekley Collection - the largest private collection of ski art in the world - to reflect the changing trends in skiing fashion and technique, and investigates the most popular resorts, their establishment, and their development"--Publisher's description.