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New Yorker Poster by Saul Steinberg 1976
Description
Item Specifics - Prints
Type: Modern - Open Edition
Subject: Landscape, Cityscape
Signed?:
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Style: cartoon style
Medium: poster
Original/Repro: Reproduction
The New Yorker Poster by Saul Steinberg 1976
The New Yorker 1976 "In View of the Word from 9th Ave." Poster
by Saul Steinberg
Size: 19 x 14"
Condition: Mint (like new)
Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was one of America s most beloved artists,
renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker
for nearly six decades and for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages,
and sculptures exhibited internationally in galleries and museums.
Steinberg s art, equally at home on magazine pages and gallery walls,
cannot be confined to a single category or movement. He was a modernist
without portfolio, constantly crossing boundaries into uncharted
visual territory. In View of the World from 9th Avenue, his famous
1976 New Yorker cover, a map delineates not real space but the mental
geography of Manhattanites. In other Steinbergian transitions, fingerprints
become mug shots or landscapes; graph paper doubles as the facade
of an office building; words, numbers, and punctuation marks come
to life as messengers of doubt, fear, or exuberance; sheet music
lines glide into violin strings, record grooves, the grain of a wood
table, and the smile of a cat.
Steinberg defined drawing as "a way of reasoning on paper,"
and he remained committed to the act of drawing in an era dominated
by large-scale painting and sculpture. Throughout his long career,
he used drawing to think about the semantics of art, reconfiguring
stylistic signs into a new language suited to the fabricated temper
of modern life. He was, as the title of one of his books has it,
the "inspector,"
seeing through every false front, every pretense. Sometimes with
affection, sometimes with irony, but always with virtuoso mastery,
Saul Steinberg peeled back the carefully wrought masks of 20th-century
civilization.
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