Steinberg at the New Yorker / Joel Smith ; introduction by Ian Frazier.

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 N...

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Main Author: Smith, Joel, 1964-
Other Authors: Frazier, Ian., Steinberg, Saul.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Steinberg at the New Yorker
  • At war
  • Discovering a city
  • American allegories
  • Travelogue
  • Playland USA
  • Natural history
  • Art world
  • Cat people
  • Thought and spoken
  • In the mail
  • Action writing
  • The good life
  • Certified landscapes
  • Reality stamped out
  • On a pedestal
  • The sexes
  • Mean streets
  • Domestic animals
  • Seeing through metaphors
  • A self-made world
  • Drawn from life
  • Steinberg's century
  • American scenes
  • Inner city
  • Mapping time.