Saul steinberg

Saul Steinberg

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size: 12x9in Premium Giclee Print: Cartoon by Saul Steinberg : Saul Steinberg, Romanian/American (1914 - 1999) Born in Rumania, he lived most of his life in New York, becoming a well known 20th-century comic illustrator and philosopher, who used a variety of mediums including collage and mural painting. He is perhaps most famous for his poster of the New Yorker whose shortsighted view of the world causes the cityscape of Manhattan to be the landmark from which everything else recedes. He…

As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little of Saul Steinberg's that I can steal, the crossover in the Venn diagram of the image-as-itself versus as-what-it-represents being depressingly slim. I am painfully aware that in comics, stories generally kill the image. But Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader follows not only his line, but also his line of thought.

This small volume of drawings contains no text except publication information. It was published in 1959 by German publisher R. Piper & Co. The book has 48 interior pages. The cover is 19 x 12.5 cm.

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) redefined the possibilities of drawing, casting it as a philosophical investigation, “a way of reasoning on paper.”His ingenious experiments with drawing and other media, including photography, collage, and sculpture, earned him critical acclaim as a modernist artist in the post-war period, while his numerous drawings and covers for The New Yorker made him dear to a broad American public—the people whose daily lives and customs became the subject of his art. ​

The Saul Steinberg installation comprises 34 drawings, a sketchbook, and a photograph. These works were a generous gift from The Saul Steinberg Foundation.

The Saul Steinberg installation comprises 34 drawings, a sketchbook, and a photograph. These works were a generous gift from The Saul Steinberg Foundation.