Cartoon Vision. Dan Bashara

Cartoon Vision - Dan Bashara

In <I>Cartoon Vision</I> 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&mdash;theoretical, historical, and aesthetic&mdash;between animators, architects, designers, artists, and filmmakers reveal a specific midcentury modernism that rigorously reimagined the senses. <I>Cartoon Vision </I>invokes the American Bauhaus legacy of L&aacute;szl&oacute; Moholy-Nagy and Gy&ouml;rgy Kepes and advocates for animation&rsquo;s pivotal role in a utopian design project of retraining the public&rsquo;s vision to better apprehend a rapidly changing modern world.