Cartoon Vision

UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics

Dan Bashara (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29814-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Dan Bashara is an instructor of cinema and media studies at DePaul University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	40 b-w illus.
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-520-29814-4 / 0520298144
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29814-9 / 9780520298149
Zustand	Neuware