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Cartoon Vision: Upa Animation and Postwar Aesthetics

Cartoon Vision: Upa Animation and Postwar Aesthetics

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Film Studies

ISBN10: 0520298136
ISBN13: 9780520298132
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 2 2019
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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