TY - BOOK ID - 1643489 TI - Saul Steinberg: illuminations AU - Smith, Joel AU - Simic, Charles AU - Cincinnati Art Museum AU - Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) AU - The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, N.Y.) AU - Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.) PY - 2006 SN - 9780300115864 0300115865 0300121792 9780300121797 PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Steinberg, Saul KW - Exhibitions. KW - 741.5.07 KW - 741.07 KW - Tekenkunst ; 20ste eeuw ; Saul Steinberg KW - Cartoons ; o.a. voor de New Yorker KW - Humor in de kunst KW - Steinberg, Saul 1914-1999 (°Râmnicul Sarat, Roemenië) KW - 741.5 KW - Tekenkunst ; striptekenaars ; cartoonisten A - Z KW - Tekenkunst ; tekenkunstenaars A - Z KW - Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen KW - Exhibitions KW - 741.5 Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen KW - 766.33.07 KW - Grafische industrie en ontwerp ; beeld ; cartoon ; cartoonisten, perstekenaars, karikaturisten UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1643489 AB - "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 contribution to twentieth-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, or readers." "An introduction by poet Charles Simic tracks the origins of Steinberg's darkly comic sensibility in the "Balkan bazaar" of the artist's native Romania. Joel Smith shows how architectural training and an early rise to fame as a cartoonist in fascist-era Milan honed Steinberg'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 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 the works featured in this important book."--BOOK JACKET. ER -