Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum
Cook, James W.
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Hardcover
332 pages
24 Halftones
Published: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0674004574
In this text, James W. Cook explores this modern mode of trickery designed to puzzle the eye and challenge the brain. Upsetting the strict boundaries of value, race, class, and truth, the spectacles offer a revealing look at the tastes, concerns, and pre
