Kenner, Hugh.

Chuck Jones. A flurry of drawings.

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994. XIV, 114 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Portraits of American genius.

Creator of the mono-maniacal 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. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, a man especially qualified to illuminate the form of literacy that Jones so wonderfully executes in the art of character animation?

A Flurry of Drawings reveals in cartoon-like sequences the irrepressible humor and profound 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 a fascinating explanation of cartoon culture and a new understanding of art’s relationship to technology, criticism, freedom, and imagination.(Publisher)

• Keywords: Animated films · Criticism and interpretation · Inanna Modern – Art Books · United States
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520087976
• Inventory Number: 100133AB

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