Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story Fantasy Art Includes fully illustrated catalogue raisonnes

Includes fully illustrated catalogue raisonnes of both published (175) and unpublished (200) works

a spirited American variant of Picasso’s and Braque’s synthetic cubism and anticipated key elements of pop art

A naive but hopeful striving for the union of two beings

Rapide Blanc provided its residents with all the luxuries of middle-class modern life in a pastoral setting-until the town was abruptly shut down in 1971

From the editor David Eggers' introduction:

Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story Fantasy Art Includes fully illustrated catalogue raisonnesFrom the dustjacket: An intimate and astonishing illustrated history of American animation, its legends, and its legacy. Acclaimed critic and historian Stefan Kanfer follows the ascent of America's most beloved and successful original art form from vaudeville sideshow to global industry, in the process holding up a mirror to the passing parade of cartoons, a mirror in which their captured reflections leave an indelible record of the changing nature of