The Labyrinth

good price

I checked this book out of the public library many times when I was a kid... I was at once fascinated and sometimes unsettled by his drawings ... they were so simple and yet so complicated!I'm currently reading his biography by Deirdre Brier and thought I should get that book again and..It's a much thicker book than I remember! Each page is a slow turn, one doesn't flit from page to page quickly, they all must be savored ... I've had it for days and have only got about half way through!

Phenomenal Leo Steinberg. His legacy is immense, both with his images and with his lucious and brilliant vision of art. I am 70 years old, since I was a child I saw his drawings and even today I return to them. There is always something to see in them. It is impossible to finish seeing them in full. All characters, landscapes, in short, all situations and drawings and traces in themselves remain vivid when these books are opened again.

The book was a gem, the description of the seller was right, the time expecting it was right (not long, just right to wait) and the note handwritten inside was lovely. Thanks Erick!

The Labyrinth is a MASTERPIECE!!! One of the great picture books of the 20th Century!! Saul Steinberg collected his drawings like a poet collects his poetry, and the result is a genre for the forward thinking. Steinberg’s The Labyrinth is not a traditional graphic novel, nor is it a monograph. Instead, it is a collection of thoughts and humorous observations that inform the reader in a clear and concise visual exercise. It may come off as pretentious at first glance, but it is truly a feast for the eyes that will last for years to come...that’s why it is back in print ;-)

I have been a lifelong admirer of Saul Steinberg’s work. I have several books that I loved looking at as a child. I jumped at the chance to acquire this wonderful book. Large and beautifully laid out and printed. A high quality item.

Wonderful art book! I got this as a gift for my mom but I look at it too when I’m at her house so it was kind of a gift for both of us. I would recommend looking up the art first if you’re not familiar with the artist of course.

Steinberg was the author who writes with pictures. Words are not a good way to describe him. I gave him five stars. That's as close as I can get to explain his sense of humor or sense of whatever it is that makes him seriously entertaining.

I arrived home two nights ago to find this wonderful book waiting for me – it had to be read on the spot – before dinner, before TV, before everything. Every third page or so, I had to show to my husband (he will get to read the other pages when I have finished going through it several more times).The book itself is beautiful – a large, solid hardback full of high-quality pages packed with exquisite black line drawings. This is a book for sharing, for dipping in and out of, over and over again. A book to place within reach, for any moments you need cheering up. It is impossible to read this book without a grin on your face.The drawings are often surreal: a landscape turns into a train track, turns into a table top, turns into a cloths line. A skeleton, with scythe and handbag, takes a peacock for a walk, followed by a swan. A knight uses his lance as a fishing pole. A roughly drawn box dreams of mathematical precision, another sucks in an irregular squiggle, and extrudes a neat angular spiral.The men have strong jaw-lines, like 1940s matinee idols. The older, matronly women may have torsos of fish or pigeons, the younger women have ridiculously high heels.In two of the early sections sounds from speech and musical instruments are drawn synaesthetically. My two favourite drawings are of a young girl talking to an adult male, and of a harp being played. In the first, the little girl is babbling, maybe about her day – the animals and birds she saw, the boy she met. Her sentences are never complete – in her hurry to get everything out, one thought melds seamlessly into the next, as the line drawing spirals up into the air. The adult male barks out a loud angular jagged sentence that cuts across the little girl’s joyous recitation. The harp sings ethereal, insubstantial, yet beautiful music – its lines are not joined up, but swirl and float, building the suggestions of a butterfly and delicate plants.There are mathematical images, symmetrical and mirror images, bodies made from mazes – all of which really appeal to me. Then there are the cubist images, a nod to Modrian in a family grouping. Cats, dogs, fish – and everywhere peacocks. Steinberg next moves on to his travels – USA with its cars on busy roads, motels and baseball; the Soviet Union with its warmly wrapped and multi-ethnic inhabitants. Then, right at the end – the labyrinths – tracing paths from A to B.This is a book to savour, a book to buy as a present for yourself and/or for someone you care about. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

If you love Steinberg, then you'll love this. A good quality book.

Saul Steinberg ist vielleicht nicht jedem ein Begriff, aber in dieser ausführlichen Werkschau lernt man den Mann, der sich sich sagte, eigentlich sei er ein Schriftsteller, der zeichnet, kennen. (Er sagte auch, zeichnen sei "reasoning on paper", und er wurde schon als Meister des Doodles bezeichnet, aber das ist fast zu läppisch).Steinbergs Welt ist eigen, Frauen sehen aus wie seltsame Vögel, Männer bestehen aus Nasen und selten lacht mal jemand, dafür muss man selber oft schmunzeln. Man muss das New York der 50er und 60er nicht kennen, um seinen Zeichenwitz zu erkennen, der auch heute noch seine Gültigkeit hat. Er zeigt, was ein Mann und ein Stift und ein Blatt Papier ausrichten können, wenn sich Einsamkeit, Humor und Scharfsinnigkeit treffen. Für Fans von klugen Illustrationen ein herrliches Geschenk.

Livro um tanto difícil de comprar. Comprei na pré-venda e antes do prazo da pré-venda terminar já estava esgotado!Tirando introdução, posfácio, etc, são 251 páginas só de imagens do mestre Saul Steinberg.Estou enviando algumas páginas de exemplo.

De bonne qualité papier et avec une couverture solide, belle qualité d'impression et d'image.Colis arrivé à temps et bien emballé.