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Steinberg at the New Yorker Hardcover – February 8, 2005

by Joel Smith (Author)

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 Joel Smith's essay, the first to draw on unpublished material in Steinberg's papers, explores the remarkable range and unceasing evolution of a major American modernist - one whose art reached a grateful public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

Print length

240 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Harry N. Abrams
Publication date

February 8, 2005
Grade level

8 and up
Reading age

13 years and up
Dimensions

10.38 x 1.25 x 12.25 inches
ISBN-10

0810959011
ISBN-13

978-0810959019
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Steinberg's high-concept graphic art—epitomized by his oft-imitated cartoon map in which a Manhattan distended with self-importance shoves the continents of North America and Asia to the margins—is enchantingly showcased in this lavishly illustrated retrospective of his work for the New Yorker. Smith, a curator at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar and author of Edward Steichen: The Early Years, surveys six decades of Steinberg's pieces, including all 89 New Yorker covers (in full color), cartoons, wartime sketches from overseas, evocative (but never literal-minded) illustrations for articles, and unpublished items from the artist's portfolio. The material is arranged thematically, examining such recurring motifs as cats, pedestals and rubber-stamped figures and documenting the turn to visual metaphor in Steinberg's later work, where symbolic graphic representations of sound, abstract relationships and existential conundrums replace the usual scenario-with-verbal-punch line cartoon setup. Smith's pithy biographical essay situates Steinberg as a self-conscious modernist who helped develop a distinctive New Yorker visual style, one with "a wry, informal wit... attuned to the jittery optimism of the Atomic Age." Steinberg's cartoons usually made readers think before they laughed, and so will this splendid memorial to a 20th-century artistic landmark. (Apr.)

From Booklist

Everybody knows that the only reason (OK, not the only reason) most people read the New Yorker is the cartoons. Fortunately, the most famous New Yorker cartoonist, Saul Steinberg (1914-99), was so frequently published on the magazine's cover that exclusive admirers could be forgiven for seldom plucking an issue from the newsstand or plumbing its contents. Smith's generous selection from all of Steinberg's New Yorker work shows such connoisseurs what they missed: black-ink drawings, sparingly shaded, that are as droll as the carefully colored line works on the covers. Steinberg, who said he drew cartoons for readers, used captions only in his earliest New Yorker work; later, he compositionally integrated words. He expected his fanciers' knowledge of the world and people, particularly New Yorkers, to enable them to see the humor in his work. Besides providing an excellent appreciative essay, Smith groups the plates and figures thematically and reprises all the Steinberg covers in chronological order at the end of the book. Ray Olson
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Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harry N. Abrams (February 8, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810959011
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810959019
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.38 x 1.25 x 12.25 inches

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Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains, The Fish's Eye, On the Rez, and Family, as well as Coyote v. Acme and Dating Your Mom, all published by FSG. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
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Ruth

Steinberg

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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Excellent condition. I read through it often.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2021

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Phenomenal Leo Steinberg. His legacy is immense, both with his images and with his lucious and brilliant vision of art. I am 70 years old, since I was a child I saw his drawings and even today I return to them. There is always something to see in them. It is impossible to finish seeing them in full. All characters, landscapes, in short, all situations and drawings and traces in themselves remain vivid when these books are opened again.

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Noodle's mom

Saul Steinberg a rare graphic artist/cartoon genius

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2010

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Having been a New Yorker reader since the 1960s, Saul Steinberg's inexplicable art entered my consciousness at a crucial time in my teenage years, when intellect and humor tend to coalesce into one's individual world view. Ones sense of humor can be as individual as a fingerprint, or as broad as a pie-throwing contest. In Mr. Steinberg's case, he captured subtleties I never had imagined, and contributed mightily to my own personal world view--which could be considered almost as off-kilter as his, without the artistry!!! For many years I diligently collected his and many other New Yorker cartoons, and now, in my 60s, his work is just a part of me and my sensibilities.

Thank you to the author Joel Smith for this rare opportunity to see so much of his genius in one place, and with an insightful text that illuminates his process. No one has done it better than Saul Steinberg to present a portrait of the world in pictures that is not the physical world, but the meaning behind the physical world, the picture that says a thousand words.

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William L. Danek

Catalyst for an audience participation exercise

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2014

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An excellent compilation of a gifted illustrator's artistic efforts. As Steinberg is one-of-a-kind, so is this book. Highly recommend for anyone's library. The material is great as catalyst for an audience participation creative exercise. Let their eyes peruse the drawings and their minds imagine meanings. Let people be free to shout out their interpretations.

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William Olmsted

Steinbergiana

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2005

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"Steinberg at The New Yorker" makes an important, even indispensable contribution to the understanding of Steinberg's work and life. Not since Harold Rosenberg's discriminating essays on Steinberg has there been such a good source of insight about his procedures and concepts. Ian Frazier's memoir fleshes out this otherwise mysterious character, Joel Smith's commentary offers brief but appropriate insights, the images themselves are wonderful, copious, superbly reproduced--many in full size. A monument to Steinberg and a key historical document at the same time.

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Pearl Zovwizdom

A must have

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2005

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Magnificent. Beautifully reproduced artwork of my favorite cartoonist/illustrator of all time. From pen and ink drawings you've never seen before to full-size New Yorker covers, this book is an amazing resource. I also like the fact that Steinberg's New Yorker covers are reproduced in miniature at the end, in chronological order. But this book is more than an art portfolio. Joel Smith's contributions, which range from the biographical to the curatorial, bring a new level of appreciation to Steinberg's work.

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Adele Aldridge

I love it!

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2014

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I love Steinberg's illustrations. I am now reading Deidre Bair's bio of him, "Saul Stein" biography and this book is a wonderful accompaniment for it.

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helcio conde

great book

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014

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This is a must have great book of Saul Steinberg's work.
A splendid volume for connoisseurs and admirers.

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Manuel F.

A melhor coleção do trabalho do Steinberg

Reviewed in Spain on August 21, 2021

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Excelente coleção para os amantes do Steinberg

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OLGA PAPACHRISTOUogp114ogp

lovely

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2021

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Vivi Figueira

Steinberg at The New Yorker

Reviewed in Brazil on July 30, 2019

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Livro sobre o trabalho do artista Saul Steinberg na revista "The New Yorker".

Formato grande, bom acabamento, com bastante texto e muitas imagens, como deve ser um livro sobre este artista. Excelente livro!