Cartoon vision: UPA animation and postwar aesthetics

by Bashara, Daniel

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Title Statements

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

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 Lszl Moholy-Nagy and Gyrgy 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

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

Notes

"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Back cover.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 276 pages : : illustrations (black and white)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520970380, 0520970381
oclc:on1293010927
LC Classification:NC1766.U5
Dewey Decimal:791.43340973

Subjects

Animated films Animated films -- Aesthetics Animated films -- History and criticism… Architectural structure & design ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice Art and motion pictures Art et cinéma Cinéma et architecture Criticism, interpretation, etc Film history, theory & criticism Films, cinema HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE HISTORY OF ART Modernism Motion pictures and architecture Performing arts Popular culture United Productions of America United States United States of America, USA