Research Catalog

Title

Inspiring Walt Disney : the animation of French decorative arts / Wolf Burchard.

Author

Burchard, Wolf

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
• Wallace Collection (London, England), host institution.
• Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, host institution.

Description

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

Pink castles, talking sofas, and a prince transformed into a teapot: what sounds like fantasies from Walt Disney's pioneering animations could first be found in the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. The films produced by Disney Animation Studios represent almost a century of creativity and are deeply rooted in European storytelling and visual traditions. Exploring Walt Disney's fascination with European art and examining the novel use of French motifs in Disney films and theme parks, this publication features 40 works of eighteenth-century European design--from tapestries and furniture to Boulle clocks and Sevres porcelain alongside 150 film stills, drawings, and other works on paper from the Walt Disney Animation Studio Library and Walt Disney Archives. The text connects these seemingly disparate art forms through the artists' shared dedication to craftsmanship while also highlighting references to European art in Disney films, including nods to Gothic Revival architecture in Cinderella (1950); bejeweled, medieval manuscripts in Sleeping Beauty (1959); and Rococo-inspired furnishings and objects brought to life in Beauty and the Beast (1991). This book bridges fact and fantasy by drawing remarkable new parallels between Disney's magical creations and their artistic models.

Alternative Title

Animation of French decorative arts

Subject

• Walt Disney Animation Studios > Exhibitions
• Walt Disney Company > Exhibitions
• Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Walt Disney Company
• 1700-1799
• Decorative arts, Rococo > France > Influence > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts, Rococo > France > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts > France > History > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Animated films > United States > Exhibitions
• Animated films
• Decorative arts
• France
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "This book is published in conjunction with "Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts", on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from December 6, 2021, through March 6, 2022, The Wallace Collection, London, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, 2022."--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index.

Contents

Inspiring Walt Disney -- The discovery of Europe -- Animating the inanimate -- Dynamic heroines -- Disney renaissance, Disney rococo -- Architecture of the imagination.

Call Number

NC1766.U52

ISBN

• 1588397416
• 9781588397416

LCCN

2021425431

OCLC

• 1245472386
• on1245472386

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries