Steinberg at the New Yorker / Joel Smith ; introduction by Ian Frazier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Joel, 1964-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Frazier, Ian.

Steinberg, Saul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steinberg, Saul.

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925).

Cartoonists--United States--Biography.

Cartoonists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

Summary:

In 1941, a young Romanian escaped wartime Italy, where he had recently completed a degree in architecture, and began submitting cartoons to a weekly Manhattan magazine. For the next six decades, Saul Steinberg's covers, cartoons, features, and illustrations would be a defining presence at The New Yorker. As the magazine became a standard-bearer of taste and intelligence in American letters, Steinberg's drawings emerged as its visual epitome, and the artist gained recognition as one of the great originals of his epoch.

This richly illustrated volume opens with a captivating introduction by the artist's friend and colleague Ian Frazier. Joel Smith's essay, the first to draw on unpublished material in Steinberg's papers, explores the remarkable range and unceasing evolution of a major American modernist - one whose art reached a grateful public not from museum walls but from the pages of the periodical he called "my refuge, patria, and safety net." All eighty-nine of Steinberg's New Yorker covers appear in full color, as do many drawings that were printed inside the magazine when art was reproduced there only in black-and-white. Steinberg at The New Yorker assembles the artist's most beloved, intuitive, and brilliant inspirations. Wartime portfolios chronicle his tours of duty in China, India, North Africa, and Italy; in peacetime, the artist pays indelible visits to Hollywood, Moscow, Berlin, and Samarkand. He populates New York with stoical cats, precocious children, puzzled couples, and a menagerie of vivid grotesques. Thinkers grapple with demons of their own making; speakers speak past one another in the graphic dialects of street map and scribble. Words go on the warpath, numbers guard their secrets, and question marks an.

Contents:

Steinberg at the New Yorker

At war

Discovering a city

American allegories

Travelogue

Playland USA

Natural history

Art world

Cat people

Thought and spoken

In the mail

Action writing

The good life

Certified landscapes

Reality stamped out

On a pedestal

The sexes

Mean streets

Domestic animals

Seeing through metaphors

A self-made world

Drawn from life

Steinberg's century

American scenes

Inner city

Mapping time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 229).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, Joel, 1964- Steinberg at the New Yorker.

ISBN:

0810959011

9780810959019

OCLC:

56368566