中文简介：

本书收录了许多罕见的作品和一件曾经被遗忘的大型杰作，内容广泛而亲切，向读者重新介绍了战后时代最多才多艺和最受喜爱的艺术家之一。索尔·斯坦伯格（Saul Steinberg，1914-1999）是一位出生在罗马尼亚的插画家。在近六十年的时间里，他因刊登在《纽约客》上的封面和素描而闻名，除此之外，他还因在画廊和博物馆举办的国际展览的素描、油画、版画、拼贴画和雕塑而受到赞誉。通过这些平行而综合的职业，他精心打造了丰富、俏皮和不断发展的视觉语言。 作为经典的《从第九大道看世界》的创作者，斯坦伯格以“画那张海报的人”而闻名于广大公众。这本精美的画册在纠正这种有限的看法方面发挥了很大作用。它汇集了80多件跨领域作品：拼贴、素描、装置和摄影。本书还收录了斯坦伯格令人震惊的壁画《艺术观赏者》，这是一幅巨大的组合画，曾在1966年单独展出。 本书围绕三篇文章展开，探讨艺术家对符号的使用，对伪造和模仿的迷恋，通过面具主题对身份的思考，以及他作品的自传性质。

英文简介：

Featuring many rare works and a large- scale, previously forgotten masterwork, this wide-ranging yet intimate book reintroduces readers to one of the most versatile and beloved artists of the post-war era. Romanian-born Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. Through these parallel yet integrated careers, he crafted a rich, playful and constantly evolving visual language. Known to the larger public as the creator of the iconic View of the World from 9th Avenue, Steinberg lamented being most famous as "the man who drew that poster". This beautiful volume goes a long way toward correcting that limited perception. It brings together more than eighty works in a variety of media: collage, drawings, objects, and photographs. It also features Steinberg's astonishing mural, Art Viewers, a gigantic assemblage that was shown on a single occasion in 1966. This book is structured around three essays that explore the artist's use of symbols, his fascination with fakery and imitation, his musings on identity through the theme of the mask, and the autobiographical nature of his work.