Cartoon Vision UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520298132 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 12 Apr 2019 |
DEWEY: | 791.43340973 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xiii, 276 |
Weight: | 635g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 28mm |