Saul Steinberg : a biography / Deirdre Bair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bair, Deirdre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steinberg, Saul.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

United States.

Cartoonists--United States--Biography.

Cartoonists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 732 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2012]

Summary:

Explores the life and career of graphic artist and The New Yorker magazine mainstay Saul Steinberg.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Americanization of Saul Steinberg 1

Chapter 2 A Decidedly Peculiar Place 3

Chapter 3 A Wunderkind without Knowing It 18

Chapter 4 A Secure Trade 29

Chapter 5 The Place to Go 36

Chapter 6 The Betrayal 53

Chapter 7 To Answer in English-A Heroic Decision 74

Chapter 8 In a State of Utter Delight 54

Chapter 9 Going Off to the Oss 91

Chapter 10 My Hand Is Itching for Drawings 106

Chapter 11 Starting Again in the Cartoons Racket 130

Chapter 12 The Stranger She Married 141

Chapter 13 Slaving Away With Pleasure 163

Chapter 14 The Only Happily Married Couple 183

Chapter 15 The Draftsman-Laureate of Modernism 205

Chapter 16 Balkan Fatalism 217

Chapter 17 Some Sort of Breakdown 235

Chapter 18 A Deflating Balloon 249

Chapter 19 A Grand Old-Fashioned Journey 282

Chapter 20 Covering 14,000 Miles 276

Chapter 21 Six People to Support 286

Chapter 22 A Biting Satire of American Life 295

Chapter 23 Classic Symptoms 305

Chapter 24 The Thirty-Five Years' War 318

Chapter 25 Changes and New Things 326

Chapter 26 I Lived With Her for So Long 338

Chapter 27 Boredom Tells Me Something 349

Chapter 28 The Terrible Curse of the Consciousness of Fame 301

Chapter 29 Autobiography Doesn't Stop 372

Chapter 30 I Have to Move 319

Chapter 31 The Desire for Fame 389

Chapter 32 Such a Didactic Country 400

Chapter 33 Living in the Past 413

Chapter 34 Furniture as Biography 427

Chapter 35 Up to My Nose in Trouble 437

Chapter 36 Sadness Like an Illness 449

Chapter 37 The Man Who Did that Poster 401

Chapter 38 What the Memory Accumulates 473

Chapter 39 The Defects of the Tribe 481

Chapter 40 The Passion of His Life 494

Chapter 41 "Steinbergian" 504

Chapter 42 Winding Up Like My Parents 515

Chapter 43 The Latest News 529

Chapter 44 Affirmation of Things as They Are 543

Chapter 45 What's the Point? 560

Chapter 46 Nature's Charitable Amnesia 570

Chapter 47 The Annus Mirabilis of 1999 583.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780385524483

038552448X

OCLC:

768728929