Performing Deception
Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring
Author(s)
Rappert, Brian
Collection
ScholarLedLanguage
EnglishAbstract
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.
Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting in the modern world.
Performing Deception covers a wide range of theories in sociology, philosophy, psychology and elsewhere in order to offer a striking assessment of the way secrecy and deception are woven into social interactions, as well as the illusionary and paradoxical status of expertise.
Keywords
deception; entertainment magic; learning; perceptionISBN
9781800646902, 9781800646919, 9781800646964, 9781800646957, 9781800646933, 9781800646940Publisher
Open Book PublishersPublisher website
https://www.openbookpublishers.comPublication date and place
Cambridge, 2022Classification
Performance art
Conjuring and magic
Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge
Social and cultural anthropology
Psychological methodology
Information technology: general topics