New York's Animation Culture
Subtitle: Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939–1940
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 22, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9783030279301
Description: This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World?s Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City. Alongside a detailed investigation of animated film at the time ? ranging from the abstract works of Mary Ellen Bute and Norman McLaren to the exhibition practices of the Disney Studios and the New York World?s Fair ? New York?s Animation Culture examines a host of other animated forms, including moving dioramas, illuminated billboards, industrial displays, gallery exhibitions, mobile murals, and shop windows. In this innovative microhistory of animation, Moen combines the study of art, culture, design and film to offer a fine-grained account of an especially lively animation culture that was seen as creating new media, expanding the cinema experience, giving expression to utopian dreams of modernity, and presenting dynamic visions of a kinetic future.
Notes: Source title: New York's Animation Culture: Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939–1940 (Palgrave Animation)