Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others
Jessica R. Feldman, "Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others"
English | ISBN: 0813945119 | 2021 | 334 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0813945119 | 2021 | 334 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Saul Steinberg’s inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century. Although the literary qualities of Steinberg’s work have often been noted in passing, critics and art historians have yet to fathom the specific ways in which Steinberg meant drawing not merely to resemble writing but to be itself a type of literary writing. Jessica R. Feldman's Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys, the first book-length critical study of Steinberg’s art and its relation to literature, explores his complex literary roots, particularly his affinities with modernist aesthetics and iconography. The Steinberg who emerges is an artist of far greater depth than has been previously recognized.
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