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Modern Enchantments
Author | : Simon During |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674013711 |
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Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?
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