Video: Saul Steinberg
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A selection of Saul Steinberg 's drawings, paired with music via shivabel .
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A selection of Saul Steinberg 's drawings, paired with music via shivabel .
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jonathan Taylor writes : A few overdue links to start the week—you're catching up already! Aldo Buzzi, who was a longtime friend and collaborator of Saul Steinberg, died October 9 . He was 99. "I was born just in time to see the Russia of Chekhov," he wrote in " Cheknov in Sondrio " ( The New Yorker , September 14, 1992), a Sebaldian wandering through time,...
Ample Sanity (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Here he discusses his scratchboard technique for Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice series. Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was one of America's most beloved artists, renowned for 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. "There is...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... Among artists to be included are George Grosz, Karl Hagenauer, Alice Neel, David Hockney, Peter Saul, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, John Graham, Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol, Saul Steinberg, Alfred Henry Maurer, Jon Serl, Saul Leiter, and Margaret Watkins.
Hello Beautiful! (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Today we joke that Frank Gehry simply crumples up a piece of paper to arrive at his designs. I love this cartoon from around 1950- Saul Steinberg takes a piece of ledger or graph paper and makes a modern facade... (click to enlarge) Here's another Steinberg from 1954 - Graph Paper Architecture --- Saul Steinberg was born in a small town of a few thousand in eastern...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
... Hills. Sure enough, he and Wall Street would end the decade in ruin. Back East, the financier Saul Steinberg celebrated his 50th birthday in 1989 with a $1 million party in the Hamptons. “Honey, if this moment were a stock, I’d short it,” he said when toasting his wife. He would soon suffer a stroke and see his company go bankrupt. Steinberg sold his vast...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
In 1958, the Paris-based publisher Robert Delpire had the foresight to release Robert Frank's sheaf of plainspoken, black-and-white images, The Americans. Delpire insisted, however, on a cover of Saul Steinberg's pencil doodles, a fact presented in An American Journey, Philippe Séclier's film diary retracing the 15,000 miles that the Swiss-born legend drove for his omnivorous reportage...