Books : Discovery Of America, The
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by: Saul Steinberg
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780679402787
ISBN: 0679402780
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: October 06, 1992
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: October 06, 1992
Sales Rank: 861254
Studio: Knopf
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Product Description:
Spanning fifty years in the career of noted cartoonist and humorist of Saul Steinberg, this collection of paintings and drawings, including many from The New Yorker, captures the diverse landscapes, people, and character of America.
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Rating:  - The quintessential collection of this late artist.
Saul Steinberg died on 12 May and, in preparing an appreciation for publication, I revisited some of his books, most of which are out of print, alas. This book, The Discovery of America, brings together works that have appeared over the many years that this wonderful artist appeared in The New Yorker. It's quintessential Steinberg in black and white and color, full of his businessmen, dowagers, hookers, landscapes and scary urban scenes. Steinberg was, by his own admission, a writer who drew. ... Read More
Rating:  - Saul Steinberg is still great, but not at his best
Saul Steinberg is the greatest cartoonist of the 20th century. His great books e.g. "The Passport" are out of print and impossible to find. This book would be terrific had it been drawn by anybody else. But the trouble is it was drawn by Steinberg. I found his usual grace of line, modernist sensibility, drafting genius and erudite wit all there, but not in as great quantity as his earlier works. But if we can see this, it because we're seeing it with eyes he opened.
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