Disney: The World of Mary Blair (Magic Color Flair: The Art of Mary Blair) Hardcover – 6 May 2014

Incredible book! Not a huge one in dimensions (slightly bigger than A4) but CHOCK full of Mary Blair's beautiful artwork. A vast improvement on the previous 'Art and Flair' book which was released some years back, a good book but a lot of the images were quite small and a little disappointing. In this 'Magic Color Flair...' edition however a lot of the artwork featured appears in full page plates...utterly gorgeous!Mary Blair was a true visionary and her work and amazing talent really does deserves a large format coffee table artbook retrospective of her work, but this one certainly does come close to acheiving this until such a book materializes.A bigger glossy retrospective format please Mr Canemaker (similar to the Pierre Lambert Disney books... 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Jungle Book' etc...) would be very much appreciated. But well done and thank you for this.

Excellent illustration and animation stills, a nicely produced and well written summary of Mary Blair's work.

Good buy funny

The media could not be loaded.  When I bought this book, I was seriously confused by the other book  The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation  that was also coming out in the same month.Magic Color Flair is actually the companion book to the exhibition of the same name that's held at The Walt Disney Family Museum from March 13 to September 7, 2014. This book is a 176-page hardcover.The focus of this book is on the aesthetics of Mary Blair's art and design. The essay by John Canemaker reflects that, and if you have The Art and Flair of Mary Blair as well, you will find that there is quite an overlap of content. To get a fuller picture of Mary Blair's life, you have to get the other book.Mary Blair's artworks are wonderfully produced in the book. They are printed huge, many are printed full page. They included artworks that she created for Disney and for her freelance jobs. You'll see art for Cinderella, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, "It's a Small World" exhibition and the Little Golden Books.This is a fine artbook by itself. But if you just want to get one book, I would suggest getting The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation.I feel that the selection of works is much better in the other book which are more striking and representative of Mary Blair, but that could be because I read that book first. There aren't much duplication in both books so you can still get both, but then there's this dissatisfaction of having to pay more money just to have a more complete collection.4 out of 5 stars.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)