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Step into the vibrant world of The Art of John Canemaker - An Animator's Garden, a visually stunning memoir from Academy Award(R) - winning filmmaker and animation historian John Canemaker. From his turbulent childhood in upstate New York to an acclaimed career as actor, animator, scholar, and painter, Canemaker's journey spans more than fifty years of creative reinvention. At its heart is the story of a garden-- a living, ever-changing muse cultivated with his husband, Joseph Kennedy, that blossomed into luminous paintings and the lyrical animated short Bridgehampton. Filled with full-color artwork, behind-the-scenes insights, and reflections on art, nature, and resilience, this book celebrates the transformative power of creativity and the quiet beauty that blooms when we nurture both soil and spirit.

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JOHN CANEMAKER is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning animation filmmaker, and a retired tenured professor and director of the film animation program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has written numerous books on animation. Canemaker has contributed more than one hundred related essays, reviews, and articles to periodicals, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York City.

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