Cartoon Vision: Upa Animation and Postwar Aesthetics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520298132)

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 L szl Moholy-Nagy and Gy rgy 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.

Author: Dan Bashara
ISBN-10: 0520298136
ISBN-13: 9780520298132
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2019
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d