7. "The Labirynth"
Author: Saul Steinberg
New York Review of Books, 2018
Steinberg's drawings often depict cities, buildings and interiors. Full of events, people, cars, trinkets. They are almost baroque stories extracted from the recesses of memory - from his native Romania, or processed in synthetic sketches landscapes of the post-war United States. There, the artist is best known for his New Yorker covers, but his brilliant drawing associations are known all over the world. Older readers may remember some of them from the communist-era Przekrój. The full spectrum of Steinberg's work is available at https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org. The labyrinth of the title is intricate, full of nooks and crannies and surprises. And most importantly, it's hard to get out of it.
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