THE ART OF LIVING BY SAUL STEINBERG
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | PermalinkSaul Steinberg is one of my favorite cartoonists of all time. Tonight I found this 1949 first edition of his second book, THE ART OF LIVING, in a Half Price Books for $12. (See my other posts on Steinberg.)
Dig the line work:
The use of collage:
The counterfeit handwriting:
The music notation paper:
Terrific stuff. On cartoonist Mike Lynch’s blog, you can see some great scans of Steinberg’s first book, ALL IN A LINE.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Don’t you just love coming across ‘finds’ like this! Good for you! Thanks for letting us peak inside as well.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Lucky lucky you.
I met Steinberg once at a party in NYC. It was in the late sixties and I I was still in art school I was in awe of him and his work, but too young to be able to pull myself together to have a conversation with him.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
brilliant score — congratulations.
stumbled across a saul steinberg exhibition at the jp morgan library a little while back and fell head over heels. he could say so much with a line.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:10 am
That show was amazing. My wife and I saw it on our honeymoon.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Thanks, Austin, for the linky. And congrats on the Steinberg book. Whatta find!