Word: steinbergian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Plump Edwardians wander with suave decadence out of Aubrey Beardsley's world, and creatures consume them selves with Steinbergian detachment. There are silk screens from Warholville and numbers from Indiana. Psychedelia explodes and art nouveau swirls in the most unexpected places. Corridor doors are open on surrealist nightmares, Freudian symbolisms and early movies-all combined in a swiveting, swirling splurge of phantasmagoria, puns, pastiches and visual non sequiturs...
...WING ON A FLEA (by Ed Emberley; Little, Brown; $2.95) is a precise ballet of triangles, rectangles and circles performed in an amusing thicket of Steinbergian curlicues. Through a repetition of designs, the author-illustrator opens a child's eyes to the similes and metaphors of nature, the recurring likenesses that link man and animal in the great chain of being. "A triangle is the wing on a flea/ And the beak on a bird/ If you'll just look and see . . . A bandit's bandanna/ An admiral's hat/ And in case...
After a year in Santo Domingo, Steinberg reached the U.S. last July. At once he felt at home. He is most amused by American women, especially "the middleaged, fat [ones] eating in cafeterias always a piece of bread, always smiling." Explains he in Steinbergian English: "The adventures for these women who are accustomed to quiet lives and banalities are so funny when things happen to them." Steinberg is somewhat more explicit about...
| 1 |