Tuesday, April 2, 2019

A Highfalutin’ Art Critic Reconsiders Cartoonist Saul Steinberg

John Yau: “Being dispossessed must have haunted him his whole life, as did the endless bureaucracy involved with getting the documents you need to travel from one country to another, to settle into a new place. … What saved Steinberg and gave him a place in the world is drawing. All he needed was a pencil and paper. It enabled him to be mobile, to set up wherever he had a flat surface.” – Hyperallergic



Article source here:Arts Journal

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