Designing Disney's theme parks : the architecture of reassurance

Marling, Karal Ann. (Added Author). Centre canadien d'architecture. (Added Author).

Summary: "Uniting a roster of authors chosen from wide-ranging disciplines, this study is the first to examine the influence of Disneyland on both our built environment and our architectural imagination. Tracing the relationship of the Disney parks to their historical forebears, it charts Disneyland's evolution from one man's personal dream to a multinational enterprise, a process in which the Disney "magic" has moved ever closer to the real world. Editor Karal Ann Marling, Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, draws upon her pioneering work in the Disney archives to reconstruct and analyze the intentions and strategies behind the parks. She is joined by Marty Sklar, Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, historian Neil Harris, art historian Erika Doss, geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, critic Greil Marcus, and architect Frank Gehry to provide a unique perspective on one of the great post-war American icons."--Jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 2080136399
ISBN: 9782080136398
ISBN: 2080136380
ISBN: 9782080136381
Physical Description: print
223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Publisher: Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Paris : New York : Flammarion, ©1997.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"Accompanies the exhibition, 'The architecture of reasurrance--designing the Disney theme parks, ' organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) with Karal Ann Marling, guest curator"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-218).
Formatted Contents Note:	The artist as imagineer / Marty Sklar -- Expository expositions : preparing for the theme parks / Neil Harris -- Imagineering the Disney theme parks / Karal Ann Marling -- Making imagination safe in the 1950's : Disneyland's fantasy art and architecture / Erika Doss -- Disneyland : its place in world culture / Yi-Fu Tuan with Steven D. Hoelscher -- Forty years of overstatement : criticism and the Disney theme parks / Greil Marcus -- Interview with Frank Gehry by Karal Ann Marling and Phyllis Lambert.