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Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys - by Jessica R Feldman (Hardcover)

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  • Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century.
  • About the Author: Jessica R. Feldman is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Virginia and author of Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience and Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature.
  • 334 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, Subjects & Themes

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About the Book



Generously illustrated with the artist's work and drawing on invaluable archival material from the Saul Steinberg Foundation, this innovative fusion of literary history and art history allows us to see anew Steinberg's art.



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Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century. Although the literary qualities of Steinberg's work have often been noted in passing, critics and art historians have yet to fathom the specific ways in which Steinberg meant drawing not merely to resemble writing but to be itself a type of literary writing. Jessica R. Feldman's Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys, the first book-length critical study of Steinberg's art and its relation to literature, explores his complex literary roots, particularly his affinities with modernist aesthetics and iconography. The Steinberg who emerges is an artist of far greater depth than has been previously recognized.

Feldman begins her study with a consideration of Steinberg as a reader and writer, including a survey of his personal library. She explores the practice of modernist parody as the strongest affinity between Steinberg and the two authors he repeatedly claimed as his "teachers"--Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce. Studying Steinberg's art in tandem with readings of selected works by Nabokov and Joyce, Feldman explores fascinating bonds between Steinberg and these writers, from their tastes for parody and popular culture to their status as mythmakers, émigrés, and perpetual wanderers. Further, Feldman relates Steinberg's uniquely literary art to a host of other authors, including Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Defoe.

Generously illustrated with the artist's work and drawing on invaluable archival material from the Saul Steinberg Foundation, this innovative fusion of literary history and art history allows us to see anew Steinberg's art.



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Feldman is one of the first to make extensive use of a huge trove of archival material provided by the Saul Steinberg Foundation and the Beinecke Library at Yale that is transforming our understanding of Steinberg's work. Feldman's use of it is exemplary. She is a dazzling interpreter of Steinberg's art.

--Iain Topliss, La Trobe University

In this generously illustrated book... Feldman... use[s] biographical context to find parallels and intersections among Steinberg and the two writers he claimed as mentors: Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

-- "CHOICE"

The labyrinthine library in Saul Steinberg's mind was as singular as the world map drawn by his multiple emigrations. His reading life was as meticulous, as skeptical and cant-allergic, as recursive and as serially immersive as the tireless adventures of his drawing pen. His taste, moreover, was impeccable; Jessica R. Feldman brings alive the joy of following Steinberg's readerly affinities where they lead, which is to a fresh appreciation for the human-scale pleasures of the word on the modern page.

--Joel Smith, Curator of Photography, The Morgan Library and Museum



About the Author



Jessica R. Feldman is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Virginia and author of Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience and Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.2 Inches (H) x 7.7 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Subjects & Themes
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 334
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jessica R Feldman
Language: English
Street Date: February 16, 2021
TCIN: 89097964
UPC: 9780813945118
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-2962
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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