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Houdini : art and magic

Brooke Kamin Rapaport

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum in New York and three other institutions between Oct. 31, 2010 and May 13, 2012.

Contents

Houdini's transformation in visual culture / Brooke Kamin Rapaport
The immigrant world of Harry Houdini / Alan Brinkley
Houdini's the rabbi's son / Kenneth Silverman
Bess : the magician's assistant, the magician's wife / Hasia R. Diner
Drawings by Raymond Pettibon
Considering Houdini : interviews / E.L. Doctorow ... [et al.]
The many lives of Harry and Bess Houdini : a chronology / Gabriel de Guzman
Houdini's magic apparatus : needle threading, handcuffs, metamorphosis trunk, milk can, water torture cell, straitjacket.

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