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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"An inspired account of the experimental design idiom of the legendary UPA studios. Cartoon Vision frames modern animation as part of an urgent project to reorganize vision in a postwar climate of sensory overstimulation. By showing us what Mr. Magoo owed to Moholy-Nagy, Bashara’s bold interdisciplinary study unsettles familiar stories about midcentury modernism."—Justus Nieland, author of Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era
“By repositioning United Productions of America (UPA)—one of the twentieth century’s most important animation studios—in a history that goes beyond animation and American cinema to concurrent movements in interwar American art and mid-century design thinking, Cartoon Vision makes a critical contribution to the history of American visual culture at large. It is sure to become a valuable source for historians of many stripes, from film and media studies to art and design to American modernism."—Brian R. Jacobson, author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Dan Bashara is an instructor of cinema and media studies at DePaul University.
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