Books written by Christopher Finch
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Gone Hollywood
The problem was that Smith already had his own thriving business and would not give it up for less than one thousand a week — an astronomical salary at that time . Mayer balked at this , but asked Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapf to try ...
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The CG Story: Computer Generated Animation and Special Effects
More than forty feet long, almost twentyfeethigh, and blessed with Sean connery's voice, 102 Draco is a formidable creature who is on-screen for a quarter of the film's ros-minute running time. Phil Tippet—the formergo-motionspecialist ...
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Jim Henson: The Works: The Art, the Magic, the Imagination
The ultimate gift for Muppet lovers everywhere, this extraordinary tribute celebrates 40 years of Henson's creative genius--from his best-known inventions to his lesser known but equally fascinating notions for everything...
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The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms and Beyond
Presents the story of Walt Disney and his creation of Mickey Mouse and numerous other animated characters, his feature films, and theme parks, and contains over eight hundred illustrations.
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Special Effects: Creating Movie Magic
This illustrated history of motion picture special effects discusses the techniques of animation, optical printing, deployment of mechanical models, computer graphics, and robotics in the films of de Mille, Disney,...
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Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers
The miniature version of this volume captures the warm, decent, hardworking, citizens whom Rockwell painted in every corner of our country. 332 full-color illustrations.
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Norman Rockwell
A selection of Rockwell's paintings for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post are reproduced with background notes and anecdotes about the artist's career
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Norman Rockwell's America
Full-color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings, illustrations, and designs from the popular American artist-illustrator's sixty-year career are combined with a succinct text to provide a survey of Rockwell's skills and ...
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L'arte di Walt Disney da Mickey Mouse ai Magic Kingdoms
L'arte di Walt Disney da Mickey Mouse ai Magic Kingdoms
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Norman Rockwell's America
Here is a heartwarming, nostalgic anthology of Norman Rockwell's affectionate paintings of 20th-century American life. The illustrations include all of Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers, plus paintings, drawings, and graphics...
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Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers
All of his Post covers are reproduced in splendid full color in this oversized volume, with commentaries by Christopher Finch, the noted writer on art and popular culture.
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Beer: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Best
Covers more than 500 different beers from all over the world and provides photographs of beer collectables such as labels, posters, beer mats and emblems
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American Watercolors
An eye-dazzling delight, celebrating some of the greatest masters of the watercolor medium with an extravagant and beautiful selection of illustrations. 398 illustrations, 247 in full color.
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Jim Henson: The Works - The Art, the Magic, the Imagination
Guide to the genius of Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets
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Rainbow: The Stormy Life of Judy Garland
Rainbow: The Stormy Life of Judy Garland
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Nineteenth-century Watercolors
To be sure, "Nineteenth-Century Watercolors" will delight artists, amateur or professional. But with a dazzling array of exotic landscapes, curious visions, fairy-tale illustrations, stately architectural renderings, intimate still lifes, evocative...
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Disney Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear (Updated Edition)
This is his story; but, moreover, it is his art—including more than 200 illustrations that detail the evolution of Pooh and his friends from stuffed toys to animated characters.
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The Art of the Lion King
Imagine Shakespeare's Hamlet reborn as a lion cub, and you have the exciting lead character of Disney's breathtaking new animated film The Lion King. Filled with lush full-color artwork (plus...
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Chuck Close: Life
This is the first book to tell the inspiring story of near tragedy and ultimate triumph behind the dazzling work of one of today's most respected and best-loved artists. Chuck...
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Chuck Close: Work
This volume critically surveys the full range of Chuck Close's career, in which he has explored the rich possibilities implicit in his original breakthrough almost four decades ago.