Art: Walt & the Professors

Walt Disney on esthetics: "Art? ... I looked up the definition once, but I've forgotten what it is ... you got to watch out for the boys with the dramatic sense and no sense of humor or they'll go arty on you. . . . Hell, Doc ... we just make a picture and then you professors come along and tell us what we do."

Professor Robert D. Feild has done exactly that in a book called The Art of Walt Disney (Macmillan; $3.50), but he insists: "Hell, Doc [Walt himself holds several honorary degrees], this is art." Three years ago Professor...

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