|
|
Saul Steinberg - Smith, Joel; Simic, Charles - Yale University Press
-
Sep 04, 2006
288 p., 10 x 12
135 b/w + 175 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300115864
ISBN-10: 0300115865
-
Cloth: $65.00
-
SEARCH THIS BOOK
POWERED BY GOOGLE
- Related Categories
- Art and Architecture
|
Saul SteinbergIlluminations
-
Joel Smith; Introduction by Charles Simic
     
Winner of the 2007 Bronze Award in the Fine Arts Category given by the Independent Publisher Book Awards Received rating of "Outstanding" from the 2007 University Press Books Committee of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title from 2007
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’s 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.
An introduction by poet Charles Simic tracks the origins of Steinberg’s darkly comic sensibility in the “Balkan bazaar” of his native Romania. Joel Smith shows how architectural training and an early rise to fame as a cartoonist in Fascist-era Milan honed the artist’s gift for subtle graphic invention, and explores why one of the most visible, prolific, potent, and cosmopolitan careers in postwar American art has so thoroughly evaded serious study. 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.
Previously unseen sketches, documents, and printed matter from the artist’s papers illustrate the essay, career chronology, and entries for 120 objects featured in this important book.
Joel Smith is curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum and author of Steinberg at The New Yorker. Charles Simic is professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (November 30, 2006 – March 4, 2007) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (April 6 – June 24, 2007) Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (July 20 – September 20, 2007) Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (November 2, 2007 – February 24, 2008) Fondation Cartier-Bresson, Paris (May 6 – July 27, 2008) Kunsthaus Zürich (August 22 – November 2, 2008) Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (March 13 – June 1, 2009) Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (November 26, 2008 – February 15, 2009) OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR
TITLES IN RELATED CATEGORIES
  
TOP
|