Cartoon vision : UPA animation and postwar aesthetics
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Cartoon vision : UPA animation and postwar aesthetics
University of California Press, [2019]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gyoergy 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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 * Postwar Precisionism: Order in American Modernist Art and the Modern Cartoon
2 * Unlimited Animation: Movement in Modern Architecture and the Modern Cartoon
3 * Condensed Works: Communication in Graphic Design and the Modern Cartoon
4 * The Design Gaze: Cartoon Logic in Hollywood Cinema and the Avant-Garde
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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