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| Introduction: Thinking with Tricks | 1 | |
| 1 | The Death and Rebirth of the Automaton Chess-Player | 30 |
| 2 | The Feejee Mermaid and the Market Revolution | 73 |
| 3 | Describing the Nondescript | 119 |
| 4 | Modern Magic | 163 |
| 5 | Queer Art Illusions | 214 |
| Epilogue: Barnum's Ghosts | 256 | |
| Notes | 269 | |
| Index | 309 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
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Aage Magne Sjoethun
reviewed Arts Of Deception on November 04, 2019
Arts Of Deception
This book is more an academic book than something for a popular audience. I'm super interested in how the Enlightenment shaped entertainment, and here it is: automata, magic, hoaxes, trompe l'oeil art. There's a lot to think about regarding what makes being knowingly deceived fun. The section about Barnum's grossly racist antebellum "missing link" exhibition literally made me sick to my stomach to read. It made me mad that a glossy movie about Barnum was such a big hit when history shows horrific, horrific things he did.
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Add Arts Of Deception, Ingenious automatons which appeared to think on their own. Dubious mermaids and wild men who resisted classification. Elegant sleight-of-hand artists who routinely exposed the secrets of their trade. These were some of the playful forms of fraud which ast, Arts Of Deception to your collection on WonderClub |
