Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics

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 ne...

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Main Author: Bashara, Dan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA University of California Press [2019]
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Online Access:UBR01
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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages)
ISBN:9780520970380

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