Amid Amidi, Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation (San Francisco: Chronicle, 2006). 200 pages. ISBN 08118-4731-4 (hardover) US$40. URL: www.chroniclebooks.com. Reviewed by Maureen Furniss.

Only one word emerged from my lips as I opened the package containing Amid Amidi's book, which arrived unexpectedly at my home. That word was 'wow', and it was repeated several times as I leafed through the book's pages. So beautiful were the images to my eyes that I couldn't even stop to linger on them. I had to keep flipping through the book, almost entranced by the colors, the streamlined figures and their exquisitely simple charm, the lovely layout, and more.

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