Cartoon vision : UPA animation and postwar aesthetics / Daniel Bashara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bashara, Daniel, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animated films--United States--History and criticism.

Animated films.

Aesthetics.

United States.

Animated films--Aesthetics.

Art and motion pictures.

Motion pictures and architecture.

United Productions of America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Cartoon Vision examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of American (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Daniel Bashara considers animation as a laboratory exploring new models of vision and space, tracing the links--both literal and aesthetic--between animators, architects, and designers developing a midcentury modernism that rigorously reimagined the senses. Invoking the American Bauhaus legacy of László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes, Cartoon Vision advocates for animation's pivotal role in a utopian design project of retraining the public's vision to better apprehend a rapidly changing modern world"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Postwar precisionism: order in American modernist art and the modern cartoon

Unlimited animation: movement in modern architecture and the modern cartoon

Condensed works: communication in graphic design and the modern cartoon

The design gaze: cartoon logic in Hollywood cinema and the avant-garde

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bashara, Daniel, 1982- author. Cartoon vision

ISBN:

9780520298132

0520298136

9780520298149

0520298144

OCLC:

1050456585

Publisher Number:

99980629263