Saul Steinberg by Deirdre Bair

Author:Deirdre Bair [Bair, Deirdre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9780385534987
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-11-19T13:00:00+00:00

SUCH CRITICISMS MADE STEINBERG EVEN MORE reclusive and introspective, but rather than focusing on them, he tried to concentrate on the upcoming Paris exhibition. He started by making lists of tentative titles that the installers could use to identify the drawings, only some of which he ended up using. As he doodled with pen and paper, he indulged in reflections that became a guarded appraisal of where he found himself at this stage of life; he titled them “Notes on Writing.” He began with a general, nonspecific observation that “writing in order to define oneself” was like mapping out territory he already knew in order to explore what lay outside it from different angles. Such reflection had a purpose: “To be one’s own witness.”

It made him think of “Wife and property or Real Estate, Love and Money.” He gave himself advice: “Keep my money in the belt. Keep my wife in the belt. Whenever in doubt I refer it to money.” After several further musings about money, he changed direction and wrote a phrase he did not explain: “Wife not pregnant this year.” It led to musings about dogs, “miserable creature … lacks the duplicity of the man he imitates.” In a musing about laughter, he put it “in the family of hiccups—fart, belch—therefore not respectable.” “The trouble is,” he concluded, “that I give too many clues. Less clues, more chances for inventing—for creating—for taking over.” Ultimately, his question to himself was whether to pay attention to those who cared deeply for him and whose concern was genuine. And if he did, what could he—or would he—do about it?

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