Download or read book Panorama of Magic written by Milbourne Christopher and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panorama of Magic written by Milbourne Christopher and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1962 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of some of history's famous practitioners of magic.
Download or read book Magic written by Milbourne Christopher and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-09-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most profusely illustrated history of stage magic -- from ancient Egypt to Houdini. Rare photographs, woodcuts, broadsides, advertisements, illustrations of costumes, stage settings, apparatus, etc. 295 illustrations.
Download or read book Illusions in Motion written by Erkki Huhtamo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Download or read book Medieval Panorama written by Robert Bartlett and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book also includes biographies of key personalities, from Charlemagne to Wycliffe, timelines, maps, glossary, gazetteer, and bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Queen of the Fairies written by Jake Jackson and published by JG Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the creatures of the forest gather round in awe as the young Queen of the Fairies surveys her realm, dressed in the finest gossamer threads, with a crown of flowers and her magical wand. Jean and Ron Henry's charming painting comes alive with this incredible pop-up scene, including intriguing flaps hiding more delights and tabs for interactive play.
Download or read book Magic of the Rainbow written by Judy Katschke and published by Reader's Digest Association. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Barbie sticker fun time! Based on the latest direct-to-video "Barbie Fairytopia" movie, the new title in this best-selling series comes alive. Girls can follow Elina as she learns the Flight of Spring to save Fairytopia, and then create their own version of the story with reusable stickers and a two-sided playboard - sure to inspire hours of creative play! + 16-page full color storybook / over 20 reusable paper stickers to create multiple scenes + A double-sided vivid panoramic backdrop for sticker play that folds out from back cover + Interactive - kids place their stickers on the sticker board to recreate the story in the storybook.
Download or read book Outside Lies Magic written by John R. Stilgoe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside Lies Magic is a book about the acute observation of ordinary things, about becoming aware in everyday places, about seeing in utterly new ways, about enriching your life unexpectedly. For more than 20 years, John R. Stilgoe has developed and practiced the art of exploring the everyday world around us, where so much lies hidden just beneath the surface, offering uncommon knowledge if we but know what to look for. In this remarkable book, Stilgoe inspires us to become explorers on our own-on foot or on bicycle-and by so doing to reap the benefits of escaping, even temporarily, the traps of our programmed lives. "Exploration encourages creativity, serendipity, invention," he writes. And while sharing his insights on how to explore, Stilgoe provides a fascinating pocket history of the American landscape, as striking in its originality as it is revealing. Stilgoe dissects our visual surroundings; his observations will transform the way you see everything. Through his eyes, an abandoned railroad line is redolent of history and future promise; front lawns recall our agrarian past; vacant lots hold cathedrals of potential. From the electrical grid overhead to fences, malls, and main streets, Stilgoe offers a fresh understanding of the links and fractures in our society. After reading Outside Lies Magic, your world will never look the same again.
Download or read book Chora 1 written by Alberto Pérez Gómez and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I in the new series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture.
Download or read book Panorama of Prestidigitators written by Milbourne Christopher and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magic of the Rainbow written by Mary Man-Kong and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new board book based on the best-selling DVD, the brave fairy Elina must perform the Flight of Spring to save Fairytopia from the evil Laverna.
Download or read book The Big Picture written by Josh Sapan and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, photographic technology and an American culture of optimism and self-celebration combined to create what Luc Sante calls the "strange and compelling medium" of panoramic group photography. Organizations famed and obscure—from the Anti-Saloon League of America and the troops at Camp Sevier during the Great War to the members of the Midget Swing Review—commissioned photographers to produce images that sometimes encompassed a full 360 degrees. No public event—a circus, a train wreck, or the Army-Navy football game—was too grand or eccentric to deserve its own wide-angle commemoration. The photographs compose a portrait of a society on the cusp of sweeping change, as their details preserve the enduring humanity of their subjects: a bathing beauty tosses her curls; a group of cross-dressing women smile enigmatically at an off-camera friend; children at play on a summertime lawn appear only as blurs behind an Ohio town meeting. The Big Picture gathers nearly one hundred of these fascinating images, most never before published, bringing the shared experience of American history from the late nineteenth century to the WWII era to life.
Download or read book Card Magic Tricks written by Diagram Group and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of magic is shrouded in mystery...until now! Little Giant� Encyclopedia: Card & Magic Tricks reveals some of the basic secrets of conjuring and illusion. It begins with 30 pages of card handling methods that any beginner will find worthwhile. The magical card section features 83 mathematical tricks using special props and novelties, and you’ll also find 66 magical sleights of hand using coins, silks and handkerchiefs, string, rope, and paper. There’s even a section on how to get the truly "magical” effects that will have your audience shaking their heads in disbelief and calling for more.
Download or read book Barbie Fairytopia written by Elise Allen and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest Fairytopia storybook will make great reading for all Barbie fans! Welcome back to Fairytopia! In Magic of the Rainbow, Elina goes to fairy school to study magic and learn how to dance the Flight of Spring. But soon the evil witch Laverna poisons Elina's teacher, and tries to take control of Fairytopia! To save their world, Elina and her friends must combine their power, and understand that true strength comes through unity.
Download or read book More Than Meets the Eye written by Gabriele Koller and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barbie and Thr Magic of Pegasus written by Cappi Novell and published by Reader's Digest Children's Books. This book was released on 2005-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Barbie's new direct-to-video animated film, this book features a double-sided panoramic backdrop so that little girls can recreate multiple scenes with the included reusable stickers. Full color. Consumable.
Download or read book Strange Tale of Panorama Island written by Edogawa Ranpo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and the bizarre to explore the boundaries of conventional thought. Best known as the founder of the modern Japanese detective novel, Ranpo wrote for a youthful audience, and a taste for playacting and theatre animates his stories. His writing is often associated with the era of ero guro nansense (erotic grotesque nonsense), which accompanied the rise of mass culture and mass media in urban Japan in the 1920s. Characterized by an almost lurid fascination with simulacra and illusion, the era’s sensibility permeates Ranpo's first major work and one of his finest achievements, Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Panoramato kidan), published in 1926. Ranpo’s panorama island is filled with cleverly designed optical illusions: a staircase rises into the sky; white feathered “birds” speak in women’s voices and offer to serve as vehicles; clusters of naked men and women romp on slopes carpeted with rainbow-colored flowers. His fantastical utopia is filled with entrancing music and strange sweet odors, and nothing is ordinary, predictable, or boring. The novella reflected the new culture of mechanically produced simulated realities (movies, photographs, advertisements, stereoscopic and panoramic images) and focused on themes of the doppelganger and appropriated identities: its main character steals the identity of an acquaintance. The novella’s utopian vision, argues translator Elaine Gerbert, mirrors the expansionist dreams that fed Japan's colonization of the Asian continent, its ending an eerie harbinger of the collapse of those dreams. Today just as a new generation of technologies is transforming the way we think—and becoming ever more invasive and pervasive—Ranpo's work is attracting a new generation of readers. In the past few decades his writing has inspired films, anime, plays, and manga, and many translations of his stories, essays, and novels have appeared, but to date no English-language translation of Panoramato kidan has been available. This volume, which includes a critical introduction and notes, fills that gap and uncovers for English-language readers an important new dimension of an ever stimulating, provocative talent.
