STEINBERG, SAUL. have a message, the neighborhood of fiction THE NEW YORKER. NEW YORK, and news has a message. And all of it makes for 1945–2000. juxtapositions as eerily apposite as anything the (HAROLD, WILLIAM, ROBERT, French surrealists or a blender could come up TINA, DAVID, EDS.) with. Libido-heavy Masterpiece pipe tobacco banners and pre-ironic ads for J.L. Hudson An Exhibition Vycron® polyester pant-suits running opposite a Steinberg, a Sylvia Plath poem, and a paragraph “For more than fifty years, Saul Steinberg was where Harold Rosenberg pours cold gravy over The New Yorker’s nonpareil sketcher, observer, some poor painter’s heart. But perhaps we’ve left spy and—though he would have thought the word it soft. Sailed in, coveted the shell and neglected dingy and depressing—its chief cartoonist, too… the pearl. So we’ll drop this spoon in hopes that But then he disliked being called an artist, too, you’ll think sometimes of other lovely things. since it called to his mind the salon-swindle of ‘exciting’ objects and collectors’ manias. As a matter of biographical fact, Saul Steinberg ‘All of those drawings, whimpering at night (1914–1999) was a misfit. Born in Romania, in the wrong houses,’ was his dry description European to the bone, he made little of his of the consequences of selling pictures to origins; “pure Dada,” he called his native land. collectors, rather than publishers.”* Whatever He studied and made his artistic beginnings in he is, this exhibition, naming The New Yorker’s Italy, receiving in 1940 a doctoral degree in an consecutive editors, collects some two hundred architecture he never practiced. Steinberg was of his published contributions, presented as is: shaken out of a congenial life by the turbulence magazines, collected through time, some slightly of politics and war, and cast to America in the yellowed and hung with that irrevocable library 1940s where he lived strung up between the smell (Longview Public Library, October 22, uninteresting and unfortunate binary of Artist v. 1955), others, mint (V.G.+, no marks, no ears, Cartoonist. no creases), and en-sleeved with breathy fandom. There are teachers and students with square If there is a way to think about Steinberg without minds who are by nature meant to undergo the thinking about the magazine itself, its distribu- fascination of categories. For them, zoological tion, advertising, reputation, the dense thicket nomenclature and taxonomy are everything. of Marshall McLuhan adage (old clothes upon But good thinkers, the ones that outlive their old bones), and the bloodless and goofy-footed own historical circumstances, are always much ghost of Walter Benjamin, then we are blind to it. more complicated than the rhetorical truths We can’t imagine how you could see Steinberg’s we have about them. And that’s what we like stenographic line without seeing the page it is on. most about Steinberg. We like the absence of “Everything has a message,” Steinberg noted, the-world-as-represented-by-anybody-else. “even the smell of museums. In Europe, museums smell of town halls and grade schools; in America they smell like banks.” The circulatory system has a message, the page has a message, the ads Entrance Oct. 24,1953,p.23.WilliamShawn,ed. Sept. 18,1954,pp.30–31.WilliamShawn,ed. Nov. 3,1945(Ponyedition),p.1. Oct. 12,1946,p.31.HaroldRoss,ed. Harold Ross,ed.

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July 28, 1962, p. 20. William Shawn, ed. Jan. 5, 1963, p. 32. William Shawn, ed. May 16, 1964, cover. William Shawn, ed. Oct. 10, 1964, p. 95. William Shawn, ed. May 29, 1965, p. 22. William Shawn, ed. Aug. 1, 1964, p. 25. William Shawn, ed. Dec. 5, 1964, cover. William Shawn, ed. Mar. 20, 1965, cover. William Shawn, ed. Sept. 17,1966,cover.WilliamShawn,ed. Oct. 30,1965,p.241.WilliamShawn,ed. Nov. 6,1965,p.61.WilliamShawn,ed. Aug. 14,1965,cover.WilliamShawn,ed. Sept. 18,1965,p.46.WilliamShawn,ed. Feb. 20,1954,p.23.WilliamShawn,ed. Oct. 21,1950,p.24.HaroldRoss,ed. June 1,1957,pp.30–31.WilliamShawn,ed. Mar. 8,1958,p.36.WilliamShawn,ed.

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Bellow, Saul. Letters. New York: Viking, Weaver, Giles. “Further Notes from the 2010. Underground.” In The Phoenix (1970). Perelman, S.J. Most of the Most of S.J. Boxer, Sarah. “Saul Steinberg, Epic Perelman. New York: Modern Library, Wallace, David Foster. Consider the Lobster Doodler, Dies at 84.” In The New York 2000. and Other Essays. New York: Little, Times (May 13, 1999). Brown, 2006. Rosenberg, Harold. Saul Steinberg. New Calvino, Italo. “The Pen in the First Person.” York: Knopf, 1978. Trans. William Weaver in Saul Steinberg: Still Life and Architecture. New York: Salinger, J.D. “Hapworth 16, 1924.” In The Pace Gallery, 1982. New Yorker (June 19, 1965).

Carroll, Lewis. The Annotated Alice: The Salinger, J.D. “Seymour: An Introduction.” Definitive Edition. Introduction and In The New Yorker (June 6, 1959). notes by Martin Gardner. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus Gombrich, E.H. Art and Illusion: A and Giroux, 1957. Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. Washington D.C.: Smith, Joel. Saul Steinberg: Illuminations. National Gallery of Art, 1960. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Gombrowicz, Witold. Ferdydurke. Trans. Smith, Joel. Steinberg at the New Yorker. Danuta Borchardt. New Haven: Yale New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. University Press, 2000 (originally STEINBERG, SAUL. THE NEW YORKER. published in 1938). Steinberg, Saul. “Straight from the Hand and NEW YORK, 1945–2000. (HAROLD, Mouth of Steinberg.” In Life (Dec. 10, WILLIAM, ROBERT, TINA, DAVID, *Gopnik, Adam. “Saul and the City.” In The 1965). EDS.) is coordinated by Robert Snowden Guardian (Nov. 26, 2008). and Scott Ponik. With lots of ☑ ✺ ♒ ⚐ by Hope Svenson. Special thanks to Leslie Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories. New Vigeant and Amanda Clem. York: Schocken, 1995. June 16–August 10, 2012 Thursday–Saturday, 12–8pm

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