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Ricky Jay's Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living

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Book Synopsis :

Matthias Buchinger (1674-1739) performed on more than a half-dozen musical instruments, some of his own invention. He exhibited trick shots with pistols, swords and bowling. He danced the hornpipe and deceived audiences with his skill in magic. He was a remarkable calligrapher specializing in micrography-handsome, precise letters almost impossible to view with the naked eye-and he drew portraits, coats of arms, landscapes and family trees, many commissioned by royalty. Amazingly, Buchinger was just 29 inches tall, and born without legs or arms. He lived to the ripe old age of 65, survived three wives, wed a fourth and fathered 14 children. Accompanying the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition "Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger's Inventive Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay," the book is a cabinet containing a single, multifaceted wonder, refracted through author Ricky Jay's scholarship and storytelling. Alongside an unprecedented and sumptuously reproduced selection of Buchinger's

Book Detail :

Author : Ricky Jay

Pages : 150 pages

Publisher : Siglio Press

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 1938221125

ISBN-13 : 9781938221125

 

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