Saul Steinberg. All in Line. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce (1945).
Collection of drawings and cartoons. Steinberg's cubism-meets-surrealism linework is in full flower here in this collection of sketches from the author's world travels. There are polished gags, street scenes, Guernica-like action tableaux, intriguingly contrasting pictures, political caricatures, half-finished ideas, and just plain old funny pictures. Steinberg was so outside of the norm for the world of magazine cartooning that his admirers sometimes have trouble labeling his work as such, but this is what he presents to us, pure cartooning.
The critics: "‘Is it art?’ Yes. No. Anyway, it’s funny and we like it."
--Howard DeVree, “It’s Funny – But Is It Art?,” New York Times Magazine, September 8, 1946.
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