
Chuck Jones
A Flurry of Drawings, Portraits of American Genius
Hugh Kenner(Author)
University of California Press
Published on 6. October 1994
Book
Hardback
130 pages
978-0-520-08797-2 (ISBN)
Description
Creator of the monomaniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. "A Flurry of Drawings" reveals in cartoon-like sequences the humour and reflection that have shaped Chuck Jones's work. Unlike Walt Disney, Jones and his fellow animators at Warner Brothers were not interested in cartoons that mimicked reality. They pursued instead the reality of the imagination, the Toon world where believability is more important than realism, and movement is the ultimate aesthetic arbiter. Kenner offers both an explanation of cartoon culture and an understanding of art's relationship to technology, criticism, freedom, and imagination.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
33 b&w illustrations
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08797-2 (9780520087972)
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Hugh Kenner is one of America's great literary critics and has written on a range of subjects that includes Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes.