Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys

Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys

Author: Jessica R. Feldman

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0813945127

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Saul Steinberg’s inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century. Although the literary qualities of Steinberg’s work have often been noted in passing, critics and art historians have yet to fathom the specific ways in which Steinberg meant drawing not merely to resemble writing but to be itself a type of literary writing. Jessica R. Feldman's Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys, the first book-length critical study of Steinberg’s art and its relation to literature, explores his complex literary roots, particularly his affinities with modernist aesthetics and iconography. The Steinberg who emerges is an artist of far greater depth than has been previously recognized. Feldman begins her study with a consideration of Steinberg as a reader and writer, including a survey of his personal library. She explores the practice of modernist parody as the strongest affinity between Steinberg and the two authors he repeatedly claimed as his "teachers"—Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce. Studying Steinberg’s art in tandem with readings of selected works by Nabokov and Joyce, Feldman explores fascinating bonds between Steinberg and these writers, from their tastes for parody and popular culture to their status as mythmakers, émigrés, and perpetual wanderers. Further, Feldman relates Steinberg’s uniquely literary art to a host of other authors, including Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Defoe. Generously illustrated with the artist’s work and drawing on invaluable archival material from the Saul Steinberg Foundation, this innovative fusion of literary history and art history allows us to see anew Steinberg’s art.


All in Line

All in Line

Author: Saul Steinberg

Publisher:

Published: 1945

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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"Steinberg's first book is a collection of about 200 ... drawinsg, with one or two words thrown in. Many of the drawings first appeared in The New Yorker; there is also a generous selection of drawings which he made while he was with the armed forces in North Africa, Italy, China and India."--Book jacket.


The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth

Author: Saul Steinberg

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1681372436

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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.


Steinberg at the New Yorker

Steinberg at the New Yorker

Author: Joel Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2005-02-08

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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For six decades, Saul Steinberg's covers, cartoons, features, and illustrations were a defining presence at "The New Yorker." This richly illustrated book explores the remarkable range and unceasing evolution of this major American modernist.


Reflections and Shadows

Reflections and Shadows

Author: Saul Steinberg

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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As The New Yorker's genius cartoonist, Saul Steinberg was universally admired for his playful and profound images of the life and times of his adopted homeland, the USA. In Reflections and Shadows, the artist evokes an equally enchanting portrait of his own life, conjuring images from his childhood in poverty-stricken Romania, his artistic education in Milan and his first taste of freedom and opportunity, in Washington and New York. Written in collaboration with his close friend, the author Aldo Buzzi, Reflections and Shadows offers a wonderful insight into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's great talents.


Arguing Comics

Arguing Comics

Author: Jeet Heer

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2009-09-28

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1604735880

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When Art Spiegelman's Maus—a two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust—won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, comics scholarship grew increasingly popular and notable. The rise of “serious” comics has generated growing levels of interest as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals continue to explore the history, aesthetics, and semiotics of the comics medium. Yet those who write about the comics often assume analysis of the medium didn't begin until the cultural studies movement was underway. Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium brings together nearly two dozen essays by major writers and intellectuals who analyzed, embraced, and even attacked comic strips and comic books in the period between the turn of the century and the 1960s. From e. e. cummings, who championed George Herriman's Krazy Kat, to Irving Howe, who fretted about Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie, this volume shows that comics have provided a key battleground in the culture wars for over a century. With substantive essays by Umberto Eco, Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler, Gilbert Seldes, Dorothy Parker, Irving Howe, Delmore Schwartz, and others, this anthology shows how all of these writers took up comics-related topics as a point of entry into wider debates over modern art, cultural standards, daily life, and mass communication. Arguing Comics shows how prominent writers from the Jazz Age and the Depression era to the heyday of the New York Intellectuals in the 1950s thought about comics and, by extension, popular culture as a whole.


A Little History of Literature

A Little History of Literature

Author: John Sutherland

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0300188366

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From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter, this rollicking romp through the world of literature reveals how writings from all over the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human.


The Art of Living

The Art of Living

Author: Epictetus

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13:

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The Art of Living by Epictetus: Delve into the timeless wisdom of the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus in The Art of Living. This philosophical guide offers practical insights into leading a life of virtue, tranquility, and resilience in the face of adversity. Epictetus' teachings continue to inspire those seeking inner peace and personal growth. Key Aspects of the Book The Art of Living: Stoic Philosophy: Epictetus presents the core principles of Stoicism, emphasizing the importance of focusing on what is within our control and accepting what is not. Moral Virtue: The book explores the role of moral virtue in achieving a fulfilling and meaningful life, providing guidance on ethics and character development. Practical Guidance: Epictetus offers practical advice for navigating life's challenges with wisdom and equanimity, making Stoic philosophy accessible to all. Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who lived during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. Despite facing adversity in his own life, including slavery, he became known for his teachings on personal ethics and resilience. The Art of Living preserves his philosophical insights for future generations.


Laughing at Architecture

Laughing at Architecture

Author: Michela Rosso

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1350022764

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In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical representations, cinema and TV), thirteen essays explore an array of historical subjects concerning the critical reception of projects, buildings and cities through the means of caricature and parody. Subjects range from 1750 to the present, and from Europe and the USA to contemporary China. From William Hogarth and George Cruikshank to Osbert Lancaster, Adolf Loos' satire, and Saul Steinberg's celebrated cartoons of New York City, graphic and descriptive humour is shown to be an enormously fruitful, yet largely unexplored terrain of investigation for the architectural and urban historian.