Cartoon vision: UPA animation and postwar aesthetics

by Bashara, Daniel

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Full title :Cartoon vision : UPA animation and postwar aesthetics / DanielBashara.

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 bypublisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Oakland, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0520970381, 9780520970380
DOI:10.1525/9780520970380
oclc:on1285499268
LC Classification:NC1766.U5
Dewey Decimal:791.43/340973

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 andthe avant-garde -- Conclusion.

Subjects

Animated films Animated films -- Aesthetics Animated films -- History and criticism… Art and motion pictures Art et cinéma Cinéma et architecture Criticism, interpretation, etc e-books Livres numériques Motion pictures and architecture United Productions of America United States