Download or read book Drawing the Line written by Tom Sito and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators. The movements, characterizations, and settings in the best animated films are as vivid as any live action film, and sometimes seem more alive than life itself. In this case, Hollywood's marketing slogans are fitting; animated stories are frequently magical, leaving memories of happy endings in young and old alike. However, the fantasy lands animators create bear little resemblance to the conditions under which these artists work. Anonymous animators routinely toiled in dark, cramped working environments for long hours and low pay, especially at the emergence of the art form early in the twentieth century. In Drawing the Line, veteran animator Tom Sito chronicles the efforts of generations of working men and women artists who have struggled to create a stable standard of living that is as secure as the worlds their characters inhabit. The former president of America's largest animation union, Sito offers a unique insider's account of animators' struggles with legendary studio kingpins such as Jack Warner and Walt Disney, and their more recent battles with Michael Eisner and other Hollywood players. Based on numerous archival documents, personal interviews, and his own experiences, Sito's history of animation unions is both carefully analytical and deeply personal. Drawing the Line stands as a vital corrective to this field of Hollywood history and is an important look at the animation industry's past, present, and future. Like most elements of the modern commercial media system, animation is rapidly being changed by the forces of globalization and technological innovation. Yet even as pixels replace pencils and bytes replace paints, the working relationship between employer and employee essentially remains the same. In Drawing the Line, Sito challenges the next wave of animators to heed the lessons of their predecessors by organizing and acting collectively to fight against the enormous pressures of the marketplace for their class interests -- and for the betterment of their art form.

Download or read book Cartoon Modern written by Amid Amidi and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the classic films of Walt Disney in the 1940s and the televised cartoon revolution of the 1960s was a critical period in the history of animation. Amid Amidi, of the influential Animation Blast magazine and CartoonBrew blog, charts the evolution of the modern style in animation, which largely discarded the "lifelike" aesthetic for a more graphic and often abstract approach. Abundantly found in commercials, industrial and educational films, fair and expo infotainment, and more, this quickly popular cartoon modernism shared much with the painting and graphic design movements of the era. Showcasing hundreds of rare and forgotten sketches, model boards, cels, and film stills, Cartoon Modern is a thoroughly researched, eye-popping, and delightful account of a vital decade of animation design.

Download or read book Realism Rationalism Surrealism written by Fer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins by considering responses by French artists to the First World War, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The authors then discuss the language of construction in places as dissimilar as France, Germany, and the Soviet Union; the contrasting demands of the utility and decoration of objects and paintings; and the relationship of surrealism to questions of sexuality and gender and to Freudian theory. The book concludes by addressing the widespread debate over realism in art: whether it represents an alternative to the elitism of the avant-garde or whether avant-garde art should play a role in the development of a modern realism.

Download or read book Artists Under Vichy written by Michèle C. Cone and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While France endured one of the darkest hours of its entire history, from the occupation of Paris in June 1940 to the liberation of the city four years later, the French art world displayed an astonishing burst of creativity, an atmosphere of laissez-faire and pluralism that seems at odds with the repressive nature of culture under authoritarian regimes. So reveals Michle Cone in this provocative work on the art of Vichy and occupied France. But, as Cone also discloses, Vichy xenophobia and Nazi racism kept many artists from participating in this bonanza of artistic activity. In Artists under Vichy, both narrative and illustrations demonstrate in full detail the contrast between the "haves" and the "have-nots" during a vital but until now little explored artistic period. The first section of the work analyzes the lavish attention paid to both academic and nonacademic art by the official French press, by Vichy, and by German observers. Cone hypothesizes that the German strategy in Vichy France was to allow the display of nonconformist art, outlawed as "degenerate" in Germany, in order to distract the public from the secret seizure of museum pieces and Jewish art collections--and from other, far greater Nazi crimes. Neither among the "haves" nor the "have-nots," Picasso, forbidden to exhibit, lived through this period in Paris, quietly but productively. The second section of this book considers his production and that of the true "have-nots"--persecuted artists, including resisters and Jews, in hiding or self-imposed exile from Paris in the free zone. Among the "have-nots" discussed here are Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Sonia Delaunay, Alberto Magnelli, Otto Freundlich, Victor Brauner, and Hans Bellmer. With increasing public interest focused on art branded "degenerate" by Hitler, Cone's text provides exciting new insights into creativity, collaboration, and resistance in artists' milieux under a repressive regime.

Download or read book Paris Under the Occupation written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by Now and Then Reader LLC. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hitler armed in the mid-1930s, Europe prepared for war. With its sophisticated series of fortifications called the Maginot Line, France expected to thwart any rapid German advance from the east so that, with England, the countries could fight an updated version of their World War I experience. But Hitler's blitzkrieg ("lightning war") tactics, based upon rapid tank and troop movements, overran the powerful French army. In 1940 France fell in just six weeks. Churchill's anticipated bulwark against Nazi aggression on the continent disappeared as Hitler marched into Paris, the city largely intact. For more than four years, France lived under a German occupation that reinforced its shame and sapped its energies. Afterward, the renowned French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempted to explain France's experience under the occupation and repair the nation's now tarnished reputation.

Download or read book Paris written by Sarah Wilson and published by Royal Academy Books. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, this catalogue charts the influential progress of the visual arts in Paris. Key figures such as Matisse, Duchamp, Picasso and Kandinsky are all represented.

Download or read book Spectacular Bodies written by Martin Kemp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrated and with essays by Martin Kemp, Spectacular Bodies reveals a new way of seeing ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Artist in His Studio written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book L art expressif au XIXe si cle Francais written by Maurice Gobin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue des tableaux modernes written by Hôtel Drouot and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Au fil du trait written by Carré d'art/Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage propose, avec un ensemble de près de deux cents oeuvres sur papier choisies dans la collection du Cabinet d'art graphique du Musée national d'art moderne, un regard original et inédit sur la création artistique au XXe siècle à travers les multiples techniques du dessin : mine de plomb, fusain, pastel, encre, aquarelle, gouache ...

Download or read book Catalogue des tableaux modernes aquarelles pastels gouaches dessins par P Bonnard G Braque J Capon E Carri re A Chabanian M Chagall G Courbet M Denis R Dufy O Friesz M Gromaire A Guillaumin G Guys L Hervieu P Laprade Lascaux A Lebourg M Luce E Manet A Modigliani C Monet Palmero C Pissarro Puvis de Chavanne A Renoir Richard G Rouault K X Roussel P Signac A Sisley Souverbie F Vallotton M de Vlaminck A Vollon dessin sur pl tre par Steinlen livres provenant de la collection de M E B Emile Bernheim written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue de tableaux modernes aquarelles gouaches pastels dessins written by Georges Petit and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tableaux modernes pastels aquarelles gouaches dessins written by Hôtel Drouot and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marc Desgrandchamps written by Marc Desgrandchamps and published by Paris Musées. This book was released on 2011 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "L'oeuvre de Marc Desgrandchamps est avant tout une expérience visuelle. Malgré leurs compositions architecturées, ses tableaux figures évanescentes, objets fragmentés, espace indéfini se situent entre opacité, transparence et surimpression : les couleurs fluides, presque liquides, et les contours estompés concourent à donner aux formes une improbable matérialité. Près d'une centaine d'oeuvres peintures, gouaches, dessins, lavis et collages, dont certains inédits permettent d'explorer l'univers de cet artiste, qui mêle souvenirs culture populaire et multiples références artistiques en une étonnante alchimie." P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Aquarelles Dessins Gouaches Pastels Sculptures Tableaux Modernes written by Hôtel Drouot and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: