{"product_id":"cartoon-vision-upa-animation-and-postwar-aesthetics-9780520298132","title":"Cartoon Vision  UPA Animation and Postwar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 linkstheoretical, historical, and aestheticbetween 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCartoon Vision\u003c\/i\u003e treats animation with all the seriousness it deserves, and in so doing captures a messier modernism that rightly brings avant-garde practice into contact with a more diverse field of popular taste.\" * Oxford Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Postwar Precisionism: Order in American Modernist Art and the Modern Cartoon\u003cbr\u003e 2 • Unlimited Animation: Movement in Modern Architecture and the Modern Cartoon\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Condensed Works: Communication in Graphic Design and the Modern Cartoon\u003cbr\u003e 4 • The Design Gaze: Cartoon Logic in Hollywood Cinema and the Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402901528919,"sku":"9780520298132","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520298132.jpg?v=1730481813","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cartoon-vision-upa-animation-and-postwar-aesthetics-9780520298132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}