Saul Steinberg: Illuminations Tapa blanda - 2006

Yale University Press. paperback. Good. 9x6x0.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Large softcover, 287 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, New York. Illustrated card covers with long inside flaps, minimal wear. An exhaustive compilation of the best graphic work of Steinberg covering his life in advertising, graphic design and fine arts. Record # 454939

New Haven CT: Yale University Press. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, stiff card wrappers firm and clean; Binding tight; Pages bright, internally clean, no ownership markings or annotations, illustrated with color and b&w plates, 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches; 287 pages. 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 extraordinary contribution to 20th-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, of readers. Previously unseen sketches, documents, and printed matter from the artist’s papers illustrate the essay, career chronology, and entries for 120 objects featured in this important… Leer más

Paperback. Very Good. Softcover. 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 extraordinary contribution to 20th-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, of readers. Relish Steinberg’s darkly comic sensibility in the “Balkan bazaar” of his native Romania. Joel Smith shows how architectural training and an early rise to fame as a cartoonist in Fascist-era Milan honed the artist’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… Leer más

Paperback. Very Good. UK stocked, available immediately. Large format paperback, published by Yale University Press in 2008. 2nd printing. A lovely bright copy with unmarked contents. Very light rubbing to the edges only. Illustrated.

New Haven & Londoln: Yale University Press. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0300121792 . Introduction by Charles Simic. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, (2006). First Edition, First Printing, Softcover Issue. 12" x 10". 287pp, Index. Illustrated softcover with French flaps, fine condition. Exhibition catalogue, fully illustrated in color and b&w, including previously unseen sketches, documents, and printed matter, "the first comprehensive look at Steinberg's extraordinary 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, of readers" (dj). ISBN 0300121792; 12 x 10 inches; 287 pages .

Yale University Press, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket issued. Like new

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.