Cartoon Vision : UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics

Bashara, Dan

University of California Press（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520298149
• DDC分類 791.43340973

Full 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.

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