Saul Steinberg: a biography

by Bair, Deirdre

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Explores the life and career of graphic artist and The New Yorker magazine mainstay Saul Steinberg.

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Title Statements

Full title :Saul Steinberg : a biography / Deirdre Bair.

Summary

Explores the life and career of graphic artist and The New Yorker magazine mainstay Saul Steinberg.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 732 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780385524483, 038552448X
oclc:ocn768728929
LC Classification:N6537.S7
Dewey Decimal:741.092

The Americanization of Saul Steinberg -- A decidedly peculiar place -- A wunderkind without knowing it -- A secure trade -- The place to go -- The betrayal -- To answer in English -- A heroic decision -- In a state of utter delight -- Going off to the OSS -- My hand is itching for drawings -- Starting again in the cartoons racket -- The stranger she married -- Slaving away with pleasure -- The only happily married couple -- The draftsman-laureate of modernism -- Balkan fatalism -- Some sort of breakdown -- A deflating balloon -- A grand old-fashioned journey -- Covering 14,000 miles -- Six people to support -- A biting satire of American life -- Classic symptoms -- The thirty-five years' war -- Changes and new things -- I lived with her for so long -- Boredom tells me something -- The terrible curse of the consciousness of fame -- Autobiography doesn't stop -- I have to move -- The desire for fame -- Such a didactic country -- Living in the past -- Furniture as biography -- Up to my nose in trouble -- Sadness like an illness -- The man who did that poster -- What the memory accumulates -- The defects of the tribe -- The passion of his life -- "Steinbergian" -- Winding up like my p…

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Artistes -- Biographies. -- États-Unis Artists Artists -- Biography. -- United States Arts Biographies Biography collective biographies Nonfiction Steinberg, Saul United States