The fruit of over ten years' research in private and public collections worldwide, this book is the first to retrace the life of a 19th-century artist-magician with an exceptional destiny: Bénita Anguinet.
Over 200 pages, richly illustrated with previously unpublished documents, plunge you into the life of this extraordinary artist, who even owned her own Parisian theater.
Features :
Over 200 pages in French
Book with sewn binding
Over 50 previously unpublished illustrations (letters, engravings, photographs, posters, etc.)
"Théâtre de prestidigitation de Mlle Anguinet au Pré-Catelan", engraving, in L'Illustration, vol. 28, no. 715, November 8, 1856
Weight
0.8 kg
Authors
Pierre Taillefer & Thibault Ternon
Publisher
Le Cabinet d’Illusions
Release date
November 2023
Binding
Sewn binding
Language
French
Contents
Thanks
Foreword
Introduction
I. The beginnings of the "First Physicist of France
Directory notebook
II. The consecration of the "Prestidigitatrice du Pré-Catelan
Directory notebook
III. The Spanish triumph of the "célebre prestidigitadora
Directory notebook
IV. The "Anguinet Phenomenon" or behind-the-scenes success
Conclusion
Appendices
I. Detailed chronology
II. Family tree
III. Transcription of archival documents
IV. Theater, poetry and travel diaries around Bénita Anguinet
V. Music composed for Bénita Anguinet
VI. Bénita Anguinet's travel map
Name index
Location index
1 review for Bénita Anguinet
Rating 5 out of 5
syb (confirmed customer)-
An impressive amount of research has gone into reconstructing the career of this magician and model of independence. The "repertory" sections are particularly enlightening (perhaps they would have benefited from a few more illustrations by the manufacturers). The visual documents, mostly unpublished, are very well distributed. Appendices detail the importance of Bénita Anguinet's notoriety, especially the chronology and European map of her representations. Finally, the parallel with her "physicist" contemporaries recontextualizes her incredible rise in a very hostile period. Bravo to the authors for this landmark work of magical literature, the first French-language biography of a female magician.
syb (confirmed customer) -
An impressive amount of research has gone into reconstructing the career of this magician and model of independence. The "repertory" sections are particularly enlightening (perhaps they would have benefited from a few more illustrations by the manufacturers). The visual documents, mostly unpublished, are very well distributed. Appendices detail the importance of Bénita Anguinet's notoriety, especially the chronology and European map of her representations. Finally, the parallel with her "physicist" contemporaries recontextualizes her incredible rise in a very hostile period. Bravo to the authors for this landmark work of magical literature, the first French-language biography of a female magician.
Sébastien Bazou
https://artefake.fr/