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Title: Art and Flair of Mary Blair, The: An Appreciation by John Canemaker ISBN: 0786853913 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic Animation Fan
Comment: A beautiful book poetically written by John Canemaker. This wonderfully designed book is a fine tribute to Mary Blair, one of the great designers in animation history. An essential book for animators, illustrators, designers and fans of animation. Let's hope that Mr. Canemaker continues to write about the animation artists who have moved and inspired countless others in the field.
Rating: 2
Summary: A disappointment
Comment: This has to have been one of the most eagerly-awaited books for animation pros and fans in a long while....and although Canemaker usually does a terrific job writing and editing animation tomes, he's done a frankly poor job here. Considering that Mary Blair is justly famous for her brilliant(in more ways than one)use of color, the reproductions are not good at all. The text is not only rehashed from Canemaker's much superior "Before the Animation Begins"(which has a chapter on Blair), it's awkwardly shortened here. As a matter of fact, the book itself-text and pictures-is ridiculously slim, given the sale price, and the fact that this will probably stand as the only book about the subject.
As another reviewer mentioned, Mary Blair did much more work than is represented here, particularly her children's illustration. It's mystifying as to why the author didn't include or couldn't find many, many more worthy examples of Blair's work to include, when in any month on Ebay, one can bid on some eye-popping merchandise(scarves, for one!), magazine illustration, greeting cards-and even original work-that has no representation here. It appears he merely asked two or three collector friends he knows for permission to publish what they owned, but that's it. A real shame and a pity. Still, diehards will have to have it(as I do)on their shelves-but this artist deserved a LOT more than this lazy, slapdash volume.
Rating: 4
Summary: Mary in the Sky with Diamonds
Comment: .
John Canemaker's 4th Disney book is dedicated to the woman that gave a unique touch of colour, styling and magic over the Disney films from mid 40s to mid 50s.
Although the text is more or less the same that appears in Canemaker's book ''Before The Animation Begins'' (a book about the lives and art of the conceptual artists of Disney, published in 1999), the Artwork is not the same!!! It is obvious that Canemaker did not find more things to write (and probably Mary Blair had a quiet and low profile life) but he did his best to come up with totaly fresh artwork from the Disney Archives and from private collections. The book is cleverly divided in chapters that marked Mary's career and the design reflects her fashionable sense of styling!
You will see many unpublished works of Blair - from her early watercolours to her a-m-a-z-i-n-g conceptual drawings for Cinderella, Alice and Peter Pan and from commercial artwork to the creation of the Small World ''universe''. There are also some wonderful photographs that the reader can admire Mary's unsualy elegant sense of dressing.
Mary Blair must be smiling ''over there'' and I guess Walt Disney too since she was his favorite female artist!
**** The reason I gave it 4 stars is ONLY because this book has not many pages.
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Title: Disney Treasures, The by Robert Tieman ISBN: 0786853905 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Designing Disney: Imagineering and the Art of the Show by John Hench, Wendy Lefkon, Peggy Van Pelt ISBN: 0786854065 Publisher: Disney Editions Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies by Jason Surrell ISBN: 0786854197 Publisher: Disney Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Art of Finding Nemo by Mark Cotta Vaz, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton ISBN: 0811839753 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Imagineering Way, The: Ideas to Ignite Your Creativity by The Imagineers ISBN: 0786854014 Publisher: Disney Editions Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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