Performing Deception
Subtitle: learning, skill and the art of conjuring
By: Brian Rappert
Contributors: Open Book Publishers
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781800646926
Subjects: Magic; Psychological aspects; Magic tricks; Magicians; History; Deception; Illusion (Philosophy)
Description: In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.

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-Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-06-16).
Table of contents: title: Preface: Attention, Attention, Attention! / Brian Rappert; title: Transcription Notes; title: 1. A Kind of Magic / Brian Rappert; title: 2. Self and Other / Brian Rappert; title: 3. Control and Cooperation / Brian Rappert; title: 4. Natural and Contrived / Brian Rappert; title: 5. Proficiency and Inability / Brian Rappert; title: 6. Truth and Deception / Brian Rappert; title: 7. Control and Care / Brian Rappert; title: 8. Learning and Unlearning / Brian Rappert; title: Index; title: Bibliography.