The “Golden Age” of magic coincided with the heyday of the lithographic poster, and acts involving levitation, decapitation, escapes, hypnotism, and other illusions were lavishly advertised. Illusions ...
William L. Carqueville, "Lippincott's, April" (1895), 19 x 12 7/16 inches, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Deceptively niche as it ...
An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario shows how magicians enticed audiences with advertisements of levitations, decapitations and other deceptions Brigit Katz - Correspondent At the turn of the ...
In 1894, the renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923) tapped the Parisian studio Lemercier to create a last-minute poster for her production of Gismonda. The assignment fell to Czech artist ...
If you’ve wandered through the International Terminal Main Hall Departures Lobby at SFO this month, you may have noticed SFO Museum’s newest exhibit, The Allure of Art Nouveau: 1890–1914. It focuses ...
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