Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Smith, Joel, 1964-

Publication

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Frazier, Ian
• Steinberg, Saul

Description

239 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 31 cm.

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 Joel Smith's essay, the first to draw on unpublished material in Steinberg's papers, explores the remarkable range and unceasing evolution of a major American modernist - one whose art reached a grateful public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.

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

• Biographies
• Biography
• Cartoonists > United States > Biography
• New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
• Steinberg, Saul

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0810959011 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004019498

OCLC

• 56368566
• SCSB-11641004

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library