{"product_id":"the-life-and-times-of-ward-kimball-maverick-of-disney-animation-hardcover","title":"The Life and Times of Ward Kimball: Maverick of Disney Animation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTodd James Pierce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBesides Walt Disney, no one seemed more key to the development of animation at the Disney Studios than Ward Kimball (1914-2002). Kimball was Disney's friend and confidant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this engaging, cradle-to-grave biography, award-winning author Todd James Pierce explores the life of Ward Kimball, a lead Disney animator who worked on characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter. Through unpublished excerpts from Kimball's personal writing, material from unpublished interviews, and new information based on interviews conducted by the author, Pierce defines the life of perhaps the most influential animator of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As well as contributing to classics such as \u003ci\u003eSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePinocchio, \u003c\/i\u003e from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, Kimball established a highly graphic, idiosyncratic approach to animation alongside the studio's more recognizable storybook realism. In effect, Ward Kimball became the only animator to run his own in-studio production team largely outside of Walt Disney's direction. In the 1950s and 1960s, he emerged as a director and producer of his own animation, while remaining inside Disney's studio. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through Kimball, the studio developed a series of nonfiction animation programs in the 1950s that members of Congress pointed to as paving the way for NASA. The studio also allowed Kimball's work to abandon some ties to conventional animation, looking instead to high art and graphic design as a means of creating new animated forms, which resulted in films that received multiple Academy Award nominations and two awards. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout his life, Kimball was a maverick animator, an artist who helped define the field of American animation, and a visionary who sought to expand the influence of animated films.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTodd James Pierce \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of literature at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He is author of \u003ci\u003eNewsworld\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThree Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi. His work has appeared in over seventy magazines and journals, including the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45809389404357,"sku":"9781496820969","price":40.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/TtNGdOIwfX9781496820969.webp?v=1770942939","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-life-and-times-of-ward-kimball-maverick-of-disney-animation-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}