{"product_id":"the-labyrinth-isbn-9781681372433","title":"The Labyrinth","description":"\u003cb\u003eA seminal work by an artist whose drawings in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLIFE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSaul Steinberg’s \u003ci\u003eThe Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1960 and  long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection of  drawings. These carefully arranged pages record a brilliant, constantly  evolving imagination confronting modern life. Here is Steinberg, as he  put it at the time, discovering and inventing a great variety of events:  \"Illusion, talks, music, women, cats, dogs, birds, the cube, the  crocodile, the museum, Moscow and Samarkand (winter, 1956), other  Eastern 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 Harold  Rosenberg, and new notes on the artwork, will allow readers to discover  this unique and wondrous book all over again.\"Incredible, 59-year-old drawings that look absolutely fresh. An American classic.” —Austin Kleon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Aggregating Steinberg’s published works and private sketches, \u003ci\u003eThe Labyrinth \u003c\/i\u003erepresents not just his creative output but also a diary of sorts. A significant portion consists of drawings of people and landmarks he saw during his 1956 trip to Russia on assignment for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and there are selections from his mural \u003ci\u003eThe Americans \u003c\/i\u003efrom the American Pavilion at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels . . . Scenes of everyday life and abstract cartoons form a panoply of views of society as Steinberg saw it during this time period. No one had an eye like he did on the world around him.” —Dan Schindel, \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The book opens with an extended, tour-de-force version of a Steinberg classic, the Line, seven pages unified by a single horizontal line that functions in myriad ways, as a timeline of history, a horizon line, the line dividing water from land, the edge of a table, the top of a bridge, a topographical mark and a clothesline. From there, the book unfolds as a set of interlocking mini-essays on Steinberg’s favorite and recurring subjects: music and musicians, architecture, the chatter of socialites, the vanity of power and ambition, and the iconography of mid-century America . . . a critical book in Steinberg’s oeuvre, a turning point for the artist. Philip Kennicott, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the towering creative forces of the 20th Century.\" —Françoise Mouly, art editor, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For the six decades, [Steinberg’s] amazing work levitated this  magazine; here was a major twentieth-century artist who also possessed  an unmatched gift for the magazine page especially \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e’s.\" —Ian Frazier, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is there any subject—or object, for that matter—that Saul Steinberg  didn’t have at with his swordlike pen? Cartoonist-artist extraordinaire,  he was a veritable Leonardo of graphic drollery.\" —Grace Glueck, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Steinberg certainly produced his share of classics, and in the  process he helped pave the way for a culture of boundary-blurrers. . . . He  showed that literature can be created without using a single sentence.\" —Deborah Solomon, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eFamed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age, \u003cb\u003eSaul Steinberg \u003c\/b\u003e(1914–1999) had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003efor nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. He published nineteen books in his lifetime, including \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Living\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Discovery of America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholson Baker\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten novels and six works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eA Box of Matches \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Anthologist\u003c\/i\u003e, both \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Books of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eDouble Fold\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award.  His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Maine with his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (1906–1978) was an art historian and critic who is remembered  as one of the most incisive and supportive critics of abstract  expressionism. He was a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Partisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e and served as an art critic at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300214296805,"sku":"NP9781681372433","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681372433.jpg?v=1767740087","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-labyrinth-isbn-9781681372433","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}