Cartoon Vision : UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics / Dan Bashara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bashara, Dan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Productions of America.

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

Animated films.

Animated films--Aesthetics.

Art and motion pictures.

Motion pictures and architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara considers animation akin to a laboratory, exploring new models of vision and space alongside theorists and practitioners in other fields. The links-theoretical, historical, and aesthetic-between animators, architects, designers, artists, and filmmakers reveal a specific midcentury modernism that rigorously reimagined the senses. Cartoon Vision invokes the American Bauhaus legacy of László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes and 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Postwar Precisionism: Order in American Modernist Art and the Modern Cartoon

2. Unlimited Animation: Movement in Modern Architecture and the Modern Cartoon

3. Condensed Works: Communication in Graphic Design and the Modern Cartoon

4. The Design Gaze: Cartoon Logic in Hollywood Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-520-97038-1

OCLC:

1051779802