"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained." - Walt Disney
TODAY'S BOOK:
The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch
The first thing you notice about this book is that it is really big and heavy. In fact, at roughly A3 size and 450 pages, of which many are actually double pages that fold out, it is one of the largest books in my library and only rivalled by a really big atlas and some other coffee table books on art. The reason I mention this, is that I bought it during a trip to the US many years ago. It was only when I got to the teller carrying it and some other books, all of them fairly large, that I realised this was going to play havoc with my weight allotment for luggage on the plane back to Switzerland where I lived at the time. But there was no ways I was putting back such a treasure.
Because if it is very big, it is also very beautiful and contains a wealth of information about a remarkable man and his art. (Although Walt Disney himself did not refer to his work as art - he maintained "I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment." ). So I paid for the book, left it at the store while I collected some more books I had bought earlier from my hotel, and let them mail it to my home address.
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