Cartoon Vision
UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics
1st Edition
Published on 2. April 2019
296 pages
978-0-520-42109-7 (ISBN)
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 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.
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Dan Bashara is an instructor of cinema and media studies at DePaul University.
Content
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
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
