| Description |
287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition, organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and held the Morgan Library, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2006-Feb. 28, 2007 and other locations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-276) and index. |
| Contents |
Lenders to the exhibition -- Abbreviations and notes to the reader -- Steinberg's bazaar / Charles Simic -- Illustrations, or the dog in the postcard / Joel Smith -- Catalogue / Joel Smith -- Appendix: Saul Steinberg to Katherine Kuh, 1961 |
| Summary |
Best known for his barbed and brilliant art for The New Yorker, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) did much more. He executed public murals, designed fabrics and stage sets, was an inventive collagist and printmaker, and turned his magic touch to the fields of painting, sculpture, advertising, and even wartime propaganda. This is the first comprehensive look at Steinberg extraordinary contribution to 20th-century art, which was that of a modern-day illuminator, putting word and image in play to create art that spoke to the eyes, and minds, of readers. Tracing the evolving motives that underlie Steinberg's multi-layered activity, this handsome volume also raises fundamental questions about the historiography of modernism and the vexed status of the middlebrow avant-garde in an age of museum-bound art. |
| Subject |
Steinberg, Saul -- Exhibitions.
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Gift of the Friends of the Library.
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Cartoons. |
| Genre |
Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Steinberg, Saul.
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Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
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Pierpont Morgan Library.
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| ISBN |
9780300115864 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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0300115865 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9780300121797 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0300121792 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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