#Magic. 1400s-1950s. Mike Caveney, Jim Steinmeyer #####Publisher: Taschen America, LLC

File name: Magic-1400s-1950s.pdf

ISBN: 9783836528078 | 544 pages | 14 Mb

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...