London: Eyre Methuen Limited, 1978. unpag. The slightest wear to wraps of an otherwise fine example. ''Warning: If you are of an artistic disposition and didn't know that animators do it for the money this book may shock you! If you always believed that cartoon films were put together from hundreds of thousands of painstaking drawings this book may disturb you!! If you have always thought of Angelo Bronzino as no more than a respected master of Tuscan Mannerism this book may confound you!!! If you don't like to see large pneumatic ladies exploding this book may disgust you!!!! In Animations of Mortality Terry Gilliam, aging animator of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, And Now for Something Completely Differenct and the Monty Python TV series; and creator of the film Jabberwocky lays bare for the first time the twisted and sordid little secrets of the Wonderful World of Animation.''. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Terry Gilliam. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bookseller: Veery Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000608
Title: Animations of Mortality
Author: Gilliam, Terry, with Lucinda Cowell
Illustrator: Terry Gilliam
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Publisher: Eyre Methuen Limited
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1978
Keywords: filmmaking, animation, art
Bookseller catalogs: Art;

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