Title & Author:

Designing Disney's theme parks : the architecture of reassurance / edited by Karal Ann Marling.

Publication:

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-218).
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.

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

2080136399 (hardback)
9782080136398 (hardback)
2080136380 (pbk.)
9782080136381 (pbk.)

Subject:

Walt Disney Company Buildings Catalogs.
Centre canadien d'architecture Catalogs.
Walt Disney Company Constructions Catalogues
Centre canadien d'architecture Catalogues
Centre canadien d'architecture
Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney Company Buildings Exhibitions.
Centre canadien d'architecture Exhibitions.
Walt Disney Company Buildings.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Catalogs.
Amusement parks Design Catalogs.
Architecture 20e siècle Californie Catalogues
Parcs d'attractions Californie Design Catalogues.
Parcs à thèmes Californie Design Catalogues.
Architecture 20e siècle Catalogues.
Amusement parks Design
Architecture, Modern
Buildings
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Amusement parks Design Exhibitions.
Architecture 20th century.
Disneyland (Calif.) History.
Disneyland (Calif.) Histoire.
California Disneyland
Amusement parks
Disneyland (Calif.)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogs
History
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Marling, Karal Ann.
Centre canadien d'architecture.

Architecture of reassurance

Holdings:

Location: Library cage cca productions 191390
Call No.: 1997-4a
Copy: c. 1
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library main 191393
Call No.: GV1853.3.C22 D47 1997a
Copy: c. 4
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 191392
Call No.: GV1853.3.C22 D47 1997a
Copy: c. 3
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 191391
Call No.: 1997-4a
Copy: c. 2
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available