Art and Flair of Mary Blair, The-Updated Edition
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Art and Flair of Mary Blair, The-Updated Edition by John Canemaker
For more than a dozen years, a soft spoken, unassuming woman dominated design at The Walt Disney Studios with a joyful creativity and exuberant color palette that stamped the look of many classic Disney animated features, including Cinderella and PeterPan.
Favorite theme park attractions, most notably the It's A Small World boat ride, originally created for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, were also among her designs. Now the story behind one of Walt's favorite artists is celebrated in this delightful volume of whimsical art and insightful commentary. In her prime, Mary Blair was an amazingly prolific American artist who enlivened and influenced the not-so-small worlds of film, print, theme parks, architectural decor, and advertising. Her art represented and communicated pure pleasure to the viewer.
Mary Blair's personal flair was at one with the imagery that flowed effortlessly and continually from her brush for more than half a century. Walt Disney loved her art and championed it at the Studio. The two shared many sensibilities, including a childlike fondness for playfulness in imagery.
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John Canemaker is a Peabody Award-winning animation director and designer who has won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Peabody Award. His 28-minute video The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Dialogue received the 2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, and his more than 20 films, as well as their original art, are part of The Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection in New York. He is also a tenured professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the director of the animation program. Canemaker's eleventh book on the history of animation is The Lost Notebooks.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781423127444 |
| ISBN 10 | 1423127447 |
| Title | Art and Flair of Mary Blair, The-Updated Edition |
| Author | John Canemaker |
| Series | Disney Editions Deluxe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Disney Editions |
| Year published | 2014-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |