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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bashara, Dan, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

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

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One Postwar Precisionism

Two Unlimited Animation

Three Condensed Works

Four The Design Gaze

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Oct 2024)

ISBN:

9780520421097

0520421094