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The term "black art" was originally synonymous with necromancy and mystical sorcery, and later with recreational trickery in general, centuries before the magic world adopted the term for its now-common method-based definition; see // | The term "black art" was originally synonymous with necromancy and mystical sorcery, and later with recreational trickery in general, centuries before the magic world adopted the term for its now-common method-based definition; see // | ||
- | Black Art, in its current form as a magical | + | There is evidence to suggest that some fundamental principles used in Black Art were employed in religious theatrical spectacles of the 1400s and 1500s to enhance suspensions and levitations of actors. John A. McKinven documents some of these illusions in // |
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+ | Black Art, in its current form as a conjuring | ||
In the collection of Magic Christian is an 1844 newspaper article, published in //Der Wanderer//, that appears to describe an even earlier performance using Black Art, this by Giuseppe Pinetti while in Russia, for a special performance for Catherine II. A date for the performance is not given, but 1796 would be a likely guess, since Pinetti was in St. Petersburg in that year, and Catherine II died on Nov. 17, 1796. Pinetti is said to have performed a dismemberment illusion on the occasion, similar to one Thomas Tobin later conceived in 1872, " | In the collection of Magic Christian is an 1844 newspaper article, published in //Der Wanderer//, that appears to describe an even earlier performance using Black Art, this by Giuseppe Pinetti while in Russia, for a special performance for Catherine II. A date for the performance is not given, but 1796 would be a likely guess, since Pinetti was in St. Petersburg in that year, and Catherine II died on Nov. 17, 1796. Pinetti is said to have performed a dismemberment illusion on the occasion, similar to one Thomas Tobin later conceived in 1872, " |