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Toward a historiography of stage conjuring: are we entering a golden age?

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Published in 2018 at "Early Popular Visual Culture"

DOI: 10.1080/17460654.2018.1550853

Abstract: In his 1906 book The Old and the New Magic, magic historian Henry Ridgely Evans (1861–1949) wrote, ‘Alas, the golden age of wizardry has passed’ (1906, 315). For him, as for other magicians at the… read more here.

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