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DAVID COPPERFIELD'S HISTORY OF MAGIC
david copperfield
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An illustrated and enlightening overview of the world of illusion on the part of the largest and most famous world magician, capturing his daring and inventive practitioners, and presenting the most famous artifacts of this art form preserved in the secret museum by David Copperfield.
In this personal journey through a unique and remarkable art art, David Copperfield paints a portrait of twenty-eight of the most revolutionary magicians in the world. From the 16th century magistrate who wrote the first book on prestidigitation to the Roaring Twenties and to the man who deceived Houdini, passing by the woman who has levity, disappeared and took bullets in her teeth, the history of the Magic by David Copperfield takes you on a crazy trip through the remarkable exploits of the greatest magicians in history.
These magicians were all marginalized in their own way, many of them being determined to use magic to escape the constraints of class and convention. But they all transformed popular culture, adapted to social changes, discovered the internal functioning of the human mind, adopted the latest technological and scientific discoveries and carried the art of magic to unprecedented summits.
These incredible stories are completed by more than 100 unpublished photographs of objects from the Copperfield's exclusive magic museum, including a speaker manual of the 16th century, the camisoles of force, the handcuffs and the Houdini water torture chamber, the famous scienting device in two of Dante, the High-Tech turban of Alexander which allowed him to read in the thoughts of people, and even coins that would have gone magic in the hands of Abraham Lincoln.
At the end of the book, you will be sure to share Copperfield's passion for the power of magic.
