Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Steinberg, Saul; Baker, Nicholson; Rosenberg, Harold |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Date: | 11/20/2018 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
A seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker, LIFE, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers.
Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 andlong out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection ofdrawings. These carefully arranged pages record a brilliant, constantlyevolving imagination confronting modern life. Here is Steinberg, as heput it at the time, discovering and inventing a great variety of events:”Illusion, talks, music, women, cats, dogs, birds, the cube, thecrocodile, the museum, Moscow and Samarkand (winter, 1956), otherEastern countries, America, motels, baseball, horse racing, bullfights,art, frozen music, words, geometry, heroes, harpies, etc.” This edition,featuring a new introduction by Nicholson Baker, an afterword by HaroldRosenberg, and new notes on the artwork, will allow readers to discoverthis unique and wondrous book all over again.
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