Magic. 1400s-1950s Mike Caveney, Jim Steinmeyer ebook#
Page: 544
Format: pdf / epub / kindle
ISBN: 9783836528078
Publisher: Taschen America, LLC
Overview The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950s 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...