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Yale, 2006. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is shelf worn and rubbed with the bottom edge of having a few small tears. The cover is slightly scratched, particularly from the back cover. Spine is slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Pages are clean and unmarked.

New Haven CT: Yale University Press;, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 288 pages. Saul Steinberg (1914-99) described himself as a "writer who draws," thus inspiring curator Smith to characterize Steinberg's brilliantly satiric drawings as "illuminations," thus linking his work to illuminated manuscripts and, given Steinberg's love of literature, to a particular favorite, Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations. Smith also explores Steinberg's mission to illuminate the overlooked and the absurd. In the biographical sections of his beautifully crafted critique, Smith affectingly recounts Steinberg's life as a Jew in anti-Semitic Romania and an architecture student in Fascist Milan whose distinctive cartoons served as his ticket out of Nazi Europe and onto the pages of the New Yorker. Both Smith and renowned poet Charles Simic associate Steinberg's fascination with documents with his harrowing refugee experiences, while Simic, a fellow immigrant from the Balkans and a friend of Steinberg's, offers striking insights into the artist's comic sensibility. Both commentators reflect on the great change in Steinberg's work after 1960, as his images turned hallucinatory and nightmarish, his protest against tyranny more intense. As instantly recognizable as Steinberg's kinetic, punning, and slyly skewering art is, there hasn't been a comprehensive Steinberg book in years, making this outstanding volume invaluable in its reclamation of Steinberg's agile, philosophic, and category-defying art. Record # 362459

New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2006. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 287 pages. Published in conjunction a traveling exhibition. Features an introduction by acclaimed writer Charles Simic as well as text by Joel Smith. Includes 175 color and 133 black and white illustrations, a chronology, list of previous exhibitions, a selected bibliography, checklist and an index. A clean and tight very near fine copy in blue cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Joel Smith on the title page. Uncommon as such.

CT: Yale University Press, 2006. first edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 10 x 13 in. Blue cloth boards. Condition is FINE ; like new on all points. Text spotless. DJ is NEAR FINE ; like near new, no wear. Extra shipping may apply. Art. RGR.