Sorcery sorcery
| Sorcery sorcery | |
|---|---|
| Publication country | Germany |
| editor | Walter-Verlag Olten and Freiburg |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| Presentation | bound with dust jacket |
| Illustrations | 72 b / w and two-color illustrations |
| Languages) | German |
| Page size | 168 |
| theme | Theory and general magic |
| ISBN | unavailable |
| author | |
| Alexander Adrion | |
Zauberei Zauberei - The experience of magic in words and pictures by Alexander Adrion is the title of a book that focuses on the philosophy of magic .
content
The book is divided into two sections. The first reproduces the conversation between the author and the later Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll , which had already been printed in an abridged version in Die Zeit a year earlier .
In the conversation, Böll and Adrion analyze the quality of the magician in general and discuss its origins and career with regard to the social environment. If the first magicians were sleuths who moved from place to place, over time they have developed into psychologically trained theatrical magicians.
In the second chapter Adrion clarifies his point of view on the art of magic. The cited magic tricks serve to support his theories. So the theory (quote): " The substance of the experiment has remained the same for almost two and a half millennia ". Adrion gives a description of a piece of art from 1793, which is shown in a similar form in the 20th century.
chapter
I. part
- Heinrich Böll: Conversation with the magician
Part II
- Alexander Adrion: The Experience of Magic
- We go to the magician
- The miracle of positive deception
- Dealing with the apparent
- Appear - disappear - transform
- Our knowledge is a sieve
- Many can do magic
- You invent the wonderful
- About the classical arts
- Sleeves, magicians and magicians
- Turn me into a flower
Book review
- Magie , Association organ of the Magical Circle of Germany , Issue 3, March 1969, p. 85
Editions / issues
- 1st edition 1968, see info box
- 2nd edition German Book Association., 1968