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They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Mid-Century Era: 4 (Disney X Chronicle Books)

They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Mid-Century Era: 4 (Disney X Chronicle Books)

by Didier Ghez (Author), Didier Ghez (Author), Eric and Susan McKinsey Goldberg (Foreword)

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    Big Book::Illustrated 2018

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Synopsis

The 1950s and 1960s at The Walt Disney Studios marked unprecedented stylistic directions brought on by the mid-century modern and graphic sensibilities of a new wave of artists. This volume explores the contributions of these heroes with special emphasis on the art of Lee Blair, Mary Blair, Tom Oreb, John Dunn, and Walt Peregoy. It includes never-before-seen images from Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Sleeping Beauty and discusses Disney's first forays into television, commercials, space, and science projects-even the development of theme parks. Drawing on interviews and revealing hundreds of rediscovered images that inspired Disney's films during one of its most prolific eras, this volume captures the rich stories of the artists who brought the characters to life and helped shape the future of animation.

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Format: Big Book::Illustrated
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 27 Aug 2018
ISBN 10: 1452163855
ISBN 13: 9781452163857

Media Reviews
The Hidden Art of Disney's Mid-Century Era: The 1950s took my breath away...Ghez features a wealth of work that was too weird, too ambitious, too esoteric to make it into a Disney production -- it's a tour of a parallel universe in which Disney was the world's best-funded avant garde salon, where incredibly talented, fiercely driven painters and illustrators produced challenging work of enormous wit, drive, and ambition.
-Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
The art and the men (and one woman) spotlighted here are fascinating. Many will be drawn to the story of Mary Blair, a female artist who exceeded in a male-dominated field, as she was one of the favorites of Disney himself. It's not hard to see why; her designs for 'Alice in Wonderland' are armed with color that seems as if it came directly from your dreams. One piece - which graces the book's cover - features Alice sitting before a seemingly never-ending ocean blue table, complete with all manner of multicolored teapots, cups and chairs, with a dark background featuring little beyond a couple bare trees, invoking a sense of mystery and dread behind the bright colors in the foreground. In other words, it perfectly captures the wonder and hints of dread that would come in the film.
-The Auburn Citizen
Author Bio
Didier Ghez is the author of Disney's Grand Tour, Disneyland Paris, They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age: The 1930s, and They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Musical Years: The 1940s. In 2018, Ghez received the prestigious June Foray Award for significant and benevolent impact on the art and industry of animation. He lives in Florida.

Eric Goldberg is best known for his work with Walt Disney Animai?1/2tion Studios on Aladdin, Pocahontas, Hercules, and Moana. In February 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Winsor McCay Award from ASIFA-Hollywood for lifetime achievement in animation.

Susan McKinsey Goldberg directed two sequences on Fantasia/2000, creating a unique look that garnered her the animation industry's highest honor, the Annie Award, for production design.