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 enlarge | Author: John Canemaker
Publisher: Disney Editions
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 37595
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 9.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0786853913
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
UPC: 725961053918
EAN: 9780786853915
ASIN: 0786853913
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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 Blah Blah Blair March 8, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The world of animated films has largely become a slick faceless corporation. For those seeking some idea of where it started and how individual genius played such a huge part I suggest The Art and Flair of Mary Blair. A highly inspirational visual feast.
Beautiful! January 31, 2007
Wow, what a great book, I recommend it for fans and colour designers in animation. It would of been great to see more images, but thats as always with art books!
Bought it despite... and liked it! August 16, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well, after a few of the reviews below I fully expected this to be a big disappointment, but, as one of the negative reviewers put it, the book had to be owned. I'm a big fan of Mary Blair's work.
OK, book arrives in the mail (thanks Amazon) and lo and behold it's just swell. Problems with color reproductions?--well, if the same high standards were applied to about 70% of the art books sold here online--the ones that run UNDER $100--then few would pass muster. Heck, it took me most of last year to scrounge a long-out-of-print copy of a Max Ernst book that was the ONLY one I'd ever encountered where the color was even remotely right. Honestly, the color quality in this Mary Blair book is just fine--a tiny bit muted here and there is about the worst I can say, and no different than a lot of books that feature production art, including some published by Disney.
Otherwise, I had no problem with the text (heck, if another reviewer hadn't pointed out that it was largely pulled from something else Canemaker had written about her, I never would have known--and why should the guy rewrite what he's already written anyway?) and the background info, along with production photos are very informative. I'm sure there were problems with rights to some things some of these reviewers wanted to see but maybe they also had evaporated. Heck, I did plenty of concept work that I never saw again and might be hanging on the wall of some project manager or something. Who knows? This isn't art gallery work.
So, more perfect book? Sure! A 300 page Mary Blair complete would suit me just fine and I'd find the $100 to pay for it. I'd also like to see ANY extensive Winsor McCay Little Nemo just stay in print for fives minutes and the world hasn't seen a decent Gluyas Williams or Rowland Emett book in nearly 50 years (an if you don't know who either of those guys are it's because there hasn't been a decent book in print for way too long--not having a big and modern Rowland Emett is just plain criminal!). While I'm at it, how about any Arthur Rackham repro that's even a vague ghost of the originals! Ah, for a perfect world!
Swell introduction March 29, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although I note some of the other reviews of this book are not too favorable, for me it's a very cool introduction to an artist of whom I had never heard.
I received it for a gift from a good friend who knows that as an artist, color is "my thing". To learn of this woman, who worked color to its absolute max during the years I was growing up, is thrilling. If nothing else, it has inspired me to seek out more of her work & what can be bad about that? If a book doesn't serve the reader/observer by piquing one's further interest, then and only then has it failed.
Good reference Book for the Illustrator July 20, 2005
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
such a nice Book of Mary Blair.
Strongly suggesting for the Art Students, Animation, Illustration, Graphic design and others Major.
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