A
celebrity of television and stage in Spain and South America, JUAN
TAMARIZ is known internationally among magicians as a true master
of his art, and one who generously shares his time and knowledge,
both in print and in person, with the magic community. He is the
author of three critically acclaimed best-selling books in English:
The Five Points of Magic, The Magic Way and Sonata. Along with Arturo
de Ascanio, Tamariz has spearheaded a school of thought in close-up
magic that has produced FISM award-winning champions and deeply
influenced the craft of magic worldwide.
Among
those things Juan Tamariz is most recognized for, among magicians,
is his trailblazing work with the memorized deck—a tool with
extraordinary potential for creating utterly baffling magic. Over
the past two decades, Tamariz has been the recognized leader in
its use and, with Simon Aronson in the United States (who contributes
an introduction to this book), the most influential.
Tamariz's
memorized deck stack, "Mnemonica", has become a legend with card magicians
throughout the world, and within this book he reveals at last its complete
workings, as well as teaching the reader how to memorize the stack-forever—in
as little as three hours. Accompanying this information are more than
a hundred tricks and routines that radically expand the range of effects
commonly thought possible with a memorized deck, and an annotated bibliography
that leads the reader to an amazing body of additional material on the
memorized deck, making Mnemonica the most complete study of its subject
ever done.
Mnemonica
is a virtual encyclopedia on the subject of memorized-deck magic,
by the world's leading exponent and one of magic's acknowledged
masters. It is a book crammed with magic from the working repertoire
of Juan Tamariz, magic that leaves everyone, public and magicians,
utterly astounded. It is a book capable of changing the reader's
entire approach to card magic, and a work that supports Juan Tamariz's
reputation as one of the most important and creative thinkers in
magic today.
432
pages, over 400 photos, hardcover.
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