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Jan 27, 2010
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Sep 23, 2009
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“Steinberg at the Bat,” 1955 LIFE feature by Saul SteinbergSaul Steinberg + baseball!
Steinberg at the Bat,” 1955 LIFE feature by Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg + baseball!

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“Straight from the Hand and Mouth of Steinberg,” 1965 LIFE article written by Saul Steinberg

…drawing derives from drawing. My line wants to remind constantly that it’s made of ink. I appeal to the complicity of my reader who will transform this line into meaning by using our common background of culture, history, poetry….The reader, by following my line with his eyes, becomes a draftsman.

AND:

The whole history of art influenced me: Egyptian paintings, latrine drawings, primitive and insane art, Seurat, children’s drawings, embroidery, Paul Klee. But I also liked all sorts of disreputable things like cartoons and advertising art. A big influence on me has been the study and the discipline of architecture—the combination of precision, draftsmanship and reason. Architecture is the most noble, difficult and philosophical branch of the arts.
Holy crap, is this a treasure. For more Steinberg on Steinberg, see REFLECTIONS AND SHADOWS.
Straight from the Hand and Mouth of Steinberg,” 1965 LIFE article written by Saul Steinberg
…drawing derives from drawing. My line wants to remind constantly that it’s made of ink. I appeal to the complicity of my reader who will transform this line into meaning by using our common background of culture, history, poetry….The reader, by following my line with his eyes, becomes a draftsman.

AND:

The whole history of art influenced me: Egyptian paintings, latrine drawings, primitive and insane art, Seurat, children’s drawings, embroidery, Paul Klee. But I also liked all sorts of disreputable things like cartoons and advertising art. A big influence on me has been the study and the discipline of architecture—the combination of precision, draftsmanship and reason. Architecture is the most noble, difficult and philosophical branch of the arts.

Holy crap, is this a treasure. For more Steinberg on Steinberg, see REFLECTIONS AND SHADOWS.


Jul 15, 2009
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David Mazzuchelli (top) vs. Saul Steinberg (bottom)
Just realized that Matt Madden already pointed this out on his post about Mazzuchelli’s MoCCA show.

David Mazzuchelli (top) vs. Saul Steinberg (bottom)

Just realized that Matt Madden already pointed this out on his post about Mazzuchelli’s MoCCA show.

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Saul Steinberg

The new David Mazzuchelli book is like if Steinberg had decided to blow this drawing up into a book. Each person in the book is drawn in a style that’s a metaphor for their character. Awesome.

(image via derik badman)
Saul Steinberg

The new David Mazzuchelli book is like if Steinberg had decided to blow this drawing up into a book. Each person in the book is drawn in a style that’s a metaphor for their character. Awesome.

(image via derik badman)

Jan 25, 2009
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Nov 02, 2008
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Saul Steinberg, “Labyrinth,” New Yorker, 1960

Saul Steinberg, “Labyrinth,” New Yorker, 1960

Sep 08, 2008
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Saul Steinberg (via)

Saul Steinberg (via)

Nov 21, 2007
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saul steinberg - santa claus as christmas tree

saul steinberg - santa claus as christmas tree

Nov 13, 2007
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STEINBERG’S WWII

from his NyTimes obit:

“…on the same day that he became a United States citizen he was given an ensign’s commission in the Navy. He was assigned to teach Chinese guerrillas how to blow up bridges, and for a year flew the mountainous route known as the Hump from China to India, making sure that the explosives reached their destinations.

Then Mr. Steinberg was sent to North Africa and Italy by William Donovan, the director of the Office of Strategic Services. His assignment was to draw cartoons that would inspire anti-Nazi resistance within Germany. Mr. Steinberg made lurid images of Hitler with skulls hiding behind him and of Mussolini’s twisted face with one eye popping out. These and other drawings were dropped behind enemy lines and printed in Das Neue Deutschland, a resistance newspaper created by the O.S.S.

During the war The New Yorker published Mr. Steinberg’s visual reports from Asia, North Africa and Europe and satiric drawings of Nazis. In one drawing, ”Benito and Adolf — Aryan dancers,” Mussolini and Hitler are wrestling half naked. But the artist, now Lieutenant Steinberg, also did drawings of military life: pictures of G.I.’s bewildered by Europe and waiting for mail from home. His pictures were published in 1945 in a book called ”All in Line,” the first of many collections of his drawings.

In 1946…Mr. Steinberg was discharged from the Navy…”

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steinberg in India from the collection ALL IN A LINE

steinberg in India from the collection ALL IN A LINE

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steinberg in India from the collection ALL IN A LINE

steinberg in India from the collection ALL IN A LINE

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