Saul Steinberg (1914 - 1999) was a Romanian American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws". Steinberg's long, multifaceted career encompassed works in many media and appeared in different contexts. In addition to magazine publications and gallery art, he produced advertising art, photoworks, textiles, stage sets, and murals. Given this many-leveled output, his work is difficult to position within the canons of postwar art history. He is best described as a "modernist without portfolio, constantly crossing boundaries into uncharted visual territory. In subject matter and styles, he made no distinction between high and stoned (low) art, which he freely conflated in an oeuvre that is stylistically diverse yet consistent in depth and visual imagination. He himself defined the problem: "I don't quite belong to the art, cartoon or magazine world, so the art world doesn't quite know where to place me." Some of the most amusing - and some of the most menacing - facets of modern life are portrayed in this book of drawings by Steinberg. In his "illusionist double language", as one critic called it, Steinberg gives us streets and avenues, time and space, words and letters, music writing, rubber-stamp architecture, the law of gravity, urban war, cloud formations, crocodiles, cowboys, dinners, parades. It all adds up to an exhilarating inspection of territories both strange and strangely familiar.

The Inspector

STEINBERG, Saul.

Penguin??Books

We all grew up in Saul Steinberg’s America, a place he envisioned for us in his drawings and cartoons for The New Yorker—none more famous than his iconic image of a New Yorker’s view of the world. In this eccentric and unpredictable memoir, one of the twentieth century’s most intellectually nimble artists shares his view of the world, of America and his place in it. A Romanian by birth, restless by inclination, Steinberg lived a peripatetic existence. In Reflections and Shadows, he introduces us to his family—his uncle Moritz, a sign painter, and his father (also Moritz), a bookbinder whose small factory produced cardboard boxes and ribbons for funeral wreaths. He tells us how he dodged the police in fascist Italy in 1940 and how he came to America, where he became a citizen, an officer in the U.S. Navy, and the foremost visionary satirist of his time. No one has depicted America with all its strengths and foibles more enduringly than Saul Steinberg. In this playful meditation, based on a series of interviews with Aldo Buzzi that has never before been published in English, and interwoven with more than a dozen drawings, Steinberg delivers a laconic hymn to America: its baseball, its diners, and its exhibitionism. “It is stinginess,” Steinberg writes, speaking of his art and method, “that holds us back.” But he had none of that: the personality that emerges from these pages is capacious, acutely discriminating, full of serendipitous curiosities, and consistently engaging.

Reflections and Shadows

Biographies & Memoirs

Buzzi, Aldo.

Arts & Literature

Random House]

The Passport is a book about : False documents, passports, diplomas, certificates, false photographs, false etchings, false wine labels, letters, diaries, manuscripts, false ex-votos, calligraphy and cacography. Fingerprints, parades, cocktail parties, ballet, billiards, cowboys, pitchers, palm trees, cats, dog walkers, horsewomen, guitar players, automobiles, locomotives, railway stations, bridges, summer and winter fashions, sphinxes, victorian architecture , art noveau, rubber-stamp architecture, slums and skyscrapers -from a 1978 catalogue of the Steinberg retrospective

The passport

Saul Steinberg (1914 - 1999) was a Romanian and American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker. Steinberg was born in Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău County, Romania to a family of Jewish descent. He described himself as "a writer who draws". This new edition of THE PASSPORT is reason for all Steinberg fans to celebrate. When this remarkable book was first published 25 years ago, it was completely misunderstood. As John Hollander says in his introduction to the revised edition, "THE PASSPORT masqueraded as a cartoon book, and hardly a reviewer at the time understood the nature of the masquerade, or how this book was an artistic act and at the same time a witty and profound commentary on artistic action". This classic collection of over 350 illustrations can be seen as an autobiographical account of Steinberg's life in America, which began with his immigration to this country in 1942. THE PASSPORT contains Steinberg's now-famous visual parodies of legal documents filled with 'trompe l'oeil' pictures and flash signatures, and his travel impressions of Western Europe, the Middle East, the Middle West, Palm Beach, Istanbul, Manáos and Hollywood. The revised edition contains additional material dating from the period 1948-to 1954, and never before published.

Arts & Photography

Drawing

Vintage Books

Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated with b&w illustrations. First Edition, 1973. Tan cloth with blue lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers. "Territories both familiar and wholly new are explored in this book of drawings. America's master penman and artist sets his eye---and stamps his seal of inspection---on many of the worst and best aspects of the modern universe." from the jacket flap.

Viking Adult

No sooner had he arrived on American shores in 1942 than Saul Steinberg embarked on an artistic journey of discovery: an exploration, in witty, sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious drawings, of this vast and diverse country. Over the decades Americans found themselves - in the pages of The New Yorker and in dozens of exhibitions and collections both public and private - revealed, dis-covered, by an artist endowed with a rare understanding of the national character, a profound appreciation for the uniquely American interplay between landscape and culture, and an unsparing eye for the native illusions. Now, for the first time, almost two hundred of these extraordinary works have been assembled in a beautiful collection chosen and sequenced by the artist himself. Journeying through Steinberg's America we encounter that ubiquitous phenomenon, the parade; we visit the distinctive, low-lying small towns that dot the countryside, the canyons of New York, the twenty-four-hour carnival that is Las Vegas. Here are the monoliths of our geography, our banks and post offices; here the Flat Earth, California, street battles, visible noise, handmade pennies, Woman's Liberation, Art, Prosperity, and taxicabs; here the people - cowboys and cowgirls, cultural icons, "monopods," unidentifiable wanderers (Who Are They?) - who inhabit the land; here the biting allegories that lend a new dimension to our hectic political life; here the beloved and well-known images that brilliantly, economically sum up a place and an attitude (e.g., the famous map of the world from the New York perspective); and here, at journey's end, a lyrical watercolor that points the way to a more hopeful future. As the distinguished critic Arthur Danto says in his penetrating introduction to this remarkable collection: "Steinberg is our national treasure, his hand the hand through which the nation inscribes itself in order to discover its true soul."

The Discovery of America

Individual Artists

KNOPF

Documents

Arts Council of Great Britain

Steinberg

Barrons Educational Series

This original edition of Roland Bartges includes 9 original loose drawings by Saul Steinberg in a separate folder. Signed and numbered out of 100 in pencil by Steinberg.

Still life and architecture: April 3-May 1, 1982

Pace Gallery

A seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker, LIFE, Harper's Bazaar, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers. Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection of drawings— these carefully arranged pages record a brilliant, constantly evolving imagination confronting modern life. Here is Steinberg, as he put it at the time, discovering and inventing a great variety of events: "Illusion, talks, music, women, cats, dogs, birds, the cube, the crocodile, the museum, Moscow and Samarkand (winter, 1956), other Eastern countries, America, motels, baseball, horse racing, bullfights, art, frozen music, words, geometry, heroes, harpies, etc.” This edition, featuring a new introduction by Nicholson Baker, an afterword by Harold Rosenberg, and new notes on the artwork, will allow readers to discover this unique and wondrous book all over again.

The Labyrinth

History & Criticism

New York Review Books

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The Inspector

Reflections and Shadows

The passport

The passport

The Inspector

The Discovery of America

Documents

Steinberg

Still life and architecture: April 3-May 1, 1982

The Labyrinth