Once Upon A Time Walt Disney : The Sources Of Inspiration For The Disney Studios

This is a review of an art book of that title, written by Bruno Girveau, Lella Smith and Pierre Lambert of the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. I like what the reviewer said at the end:

There are many books on Disney that examine his life, provide a critique of his influence or deplore his global domination, but few that celebrate the huge artistic impact of over a century’s triumph of film and animation that the Disney team achieved. This book illustrates how they did it, by acknowledging Walt Disney’s artistic curiosity in the wealth of cultural reference around him and the perfectionism to realise his vision with superbly talented teams who were also drawn from immigrant Europeans: technical masters in animation.

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