Sotheby's Guide to Animation Art

by Christopher Finch, Sotheby's, Linda Rosenkrantz

Highly collectible for both its vintage and modern images from both cartoons and feature films, the growing world of animation art comes to life in a fascinating guide that details the the role of animation art as a representation of popular culture. Original. 20,000 first printing.

198 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1998

About the author

Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey in the British Channel Islands, and now lives in Los Angeles. He is an artist and a photographer who has had one person shows in New York and California, and he is the author of almost thirty non-fiction books including the best sellers Rainbow: the Stormy Life of Judy Garland, The Art of Walt Disney, Jim Henson: the Works, and Norman Rockwell's America. Recently he has embarked on a series of noir-inflected mystery novels set in New York in the late 1960s and featuring the private investigator Alex Novalis. The first of these, Good Girl, Bad Girl, is to be published by Thomas & Mercer in 2013. These books draw on his own experiences in the New York art world at a time when today's SoHo was an urban wilderness with rats frolicking in the gutters and artists eking out a living in barren loft spaces. He is married to Linda Rosenkrantz, an author and a co-founder of the website Nameberry.