Rare used book in good condition.

Note from the editor:

Here is the art of Saul Steinberg –unique in the history of art, born of an inspired wit, playing with and trascending the borders between picture and word, “pure” and cartoon.

This is the first large, representative selection of the work that has won him international recognition as a master –the first book to present the full range of his accomplishments through several decades, from his early drawings and his dazzling cover paintings for The New Yorker to his watercolors, his three-dimensional constructions, his books and his newest departures of the 1970s.

This book also provides an important critical view of Steinberg’s art. Harold Rosenberg, one of America’s most distinguished writers about art, gives us brilliant interpretive and biographical essay exploring the crucial turns in Steinberg’s life and “the unique cast of this artist’s thinking, skill, and sensibility” as well as the development of his graphic technique and elements of his art (“a parade of ficticious personages, geometric shapes, items of household equipment, personified furniture, each staged in a fiction of what is –or in a dream of being something else”).

Together, the 274 reproductions and the extensive commentary by Harold Rosberg combine to give us an unsurpassed celebration of the magical line, the astonishing and revelatory images, the wit and the mind that have made Saul Steinberg one of the most great admired artists of our time.