by Deirdre Bair
“I don’t quite belong”: J. R. Cochran, “He Seldom Lays Eggs,” New Haven Register, July 1973.
ILLUSTRATION credits
IN TEXT
2.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
2.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
5.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
5.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
5.3 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
9.1 Photo by George Platt Lynes, courtesy of the Russell Lynes Estate.
9.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
10.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
10.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
10.3 Courtesy of Claire Nivola.
11.1 Hedda Sterne, Untitled [Circus], 1945. Oil on canvas, 39 x 34 in. © Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.
11.2 Hedda Sterne, New York, NY, 1955. Oil on canvas, 36 x 60 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, gift of anonymous donor, © Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.
11.3 Hedda Sterne, Antro II. Oil on canvas, 31 ½ x 51 in. Private collection, © Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.
12.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
13.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
15.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
16.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.
16.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
19.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
23.1 Theodore Brauner, Hedda, c. 1963–65, The Estate of Theodore Brauner / Courtesy of the Janos Gat Gallery, New York, and the Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.
25.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
27.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
30.1 Courtesy of Priscilla Morgan.
31.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
33.1 Courtesy of Claire Nivola.
33.2 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.
35.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.
35.2 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.
38.1 Estate of Evelyn Hofer.
40.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
41.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
41.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
43.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.
44.1 Courtesy of Priscilla Morgan.
44.2 Courtesy of Claire Nivola.
45.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.
INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
ABCedarian (Steinberg), 21.1, nts.1n
ABC for Collectors of American Contemporary Art
Abraham Lincoln High School
Abrams, Harry
abstract expressionism, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 18.1, 20.1, 27.1
Accademia di Brera
Adam Baumgold Gallery
Addams, Barbara
Addams, Charles, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 18.1, 26.1, 46.1
Adler, Ellen
Adler, Renata
Adler, Stella
Adolf (maternal uncle)
Advance Publications
African-Americans, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1, 22.1, 28.1, 31.1
Agarwal, Meera E.
AIDS test, Steinberg and Spaeth
Albers, Josef, 14.1, 41.1
Alexander, Shana
Alfred A. Knopf, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 26.1, 42.1, 43.1, 43.2
Algonquin Room, 15.1, 18.1, 23.1
Allen, Ariane
Allen, Woody
All Except You (Steinberg and Barthes)
All in Line (Steinberg), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1
“Alone in the World” (Gorky)
Alsop, Joseph
Altamirano, Carlos
American Academy
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 35.1, 39.1, 42.1, 43.1
“American Corrida, The” (Steinberg)
American Council of Learned Societies
American Export Lines, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, nts.1n
American Express Bank, 16.1, 21.1, 28.1
American Gothic (Wood)
American in Paris, An, 14.1, 16.1
American Institute of Graphic Arts
American Jewish Congress
American Mercury, 7.1, 7.2
Americans, The (Frank)
“America’s Unfinished Business”
“America Today” (Steinbeck)
Amin, Idi
Amory, Cleveland
Andersen, Peter
Angelini, Sandro, 5.1, 5.2, 28.1, 33.1
Angell, Carole
Angell, Roger, 23.1, 23.2, 42.1, 43.1
Angelus (Millet), 2.1, 33.1
Angry Arts
Annabella (French actress), 14.1, 14.2
Annoni, Ambrogio
Anshen, Ruth Nanda, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4
Antonescu, Ion, 6.1, 10.1
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 22.1, 26.1, 28.1
Aragno, Anna
Aragno, Riccardo, 29.1, 29.2
Aragon, Louis
Arche
Architectural Forum
Archives of American Art, 12.1, 26.1
Arlen, Harold
Armstrong, Tom, 36.1, 37.1
Arno, Peter
Arrau, Claudio
Art and Illusion (Gombrich), 15.1, 25.1
Art Deco
Art Digest
Art in America
Art Institute of Chicago, 14.1, 26.1, 34.1
Artists and Writers Protest
Art News, 11.1, 13.1, 31.1
Art of Living, The (Steinberg), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Art of This Century, 9.1, 11.1
Ascher, Aaron
Ashton, Dore, 2.1, 25.1, 29.1, 30.1, 32.1, 33.1, 37.1, 39.1, 40.1
Aslan, Matty
Asquith, H. H.
Association of American Artists
Astor, Brooke
Atelier Steinberg, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Atheneum Publishers
Attica Brothers Legal Defense Fund
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, The (Cellini)
Babette’s Feast (Dinesen)
Bach, Julian
Bachardy, Don
Baekeland, Barbara Daly, 24.1, 25.1, nts.1n
Balanchine, George
Baldwin, Ben
Ballerini, Luigi
Balzac, Honoré de, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 29.1, 30.1
Banquet Years, The (Shattuck)
“Barbe” (Beard) (Steinberg)
Bardi, Lina Bo
Bardi, Pietro
Barefoot Contessa, The
Barnacle, Nora
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Barr, A
lfred, 16.1, 18.1
Barry, Iris, 12.1, 14.1
Barthelme, Donald, 34.1, 39.1, nts.1n
Barthelme, Marion
Barthes, Roland, 34.1, 36.1, 41.1, 41.2
Barzun, Jacques, 16.1, 16.2
Bassow, Judith Steinberg, 16.1, 38.1, epi.1, nts.1n
Bataille, Georges
Baudelaire, Charles
Bauhaus, 5.1, 6.1, 21.1
Baziotes, William, 9.1, 16.1
BBC
BBPR, 5.1, 16.1, 16.2
Beach, Sylvia
Beard, Bill
Beattie, Ann, 46.1, 46.2
Beauvoir, Simone de, 12.1, 16.1, 34.1
Beck, Julian
Beckett, Samuel, 24.1, 30.1, epi.1
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 44.1, epi.1
Bellow, Janice
Bellow, Saul, 12.1, 14.1, 27.1, 33.1, 39.1, 39.2, 41.1, 43.1, 44.1, epi.1
Belmont Park Raceway, 21.1, 24.1
Bemelmans, Ludwig
Bend Sinister (Nabokov)
Berggruen Gallery
Berghof, Herbert, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 26.1
Bergman, Ingmar
Berlin, Isaiah, 18.1, 42.1
“Berlin” (Steinberg)
Bernhard, Thomas
Bernstein, Victor
Bertoldo, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 26.1, 44.1, nts.1n, nts.2n
Bertolucci, Attilio
Bessie, Simon Michael “Mike”, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 22.1
Biala, Janice, 14.1, 24.1
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
“Bicycle as a Metaphor of America, The” (Steinberg)
Bill of Rights Journal
Bird, Kenneth, n
Birstein, Ann
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (West)
Blackwell, Earl
Blake, William, 41.1, epi.1
“Bleecker Street” (Steinberg)
Blitzer, Charles
Block, Herb
Bloe, Serge de
Bloom, Allan
“Bloomsday”, 2.1, 24.1
Blow, Richard
Blue Wine (Hollander)
Boccasile, Gino
Bodian, Martin H.
Bohlen, Avis
Bohlen, Charles “Chip”, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Böll, Heinrich
Bollingen Press, 15.1, 27.1
Bolshoi Ballet
Bonjour Tristesse (Sagan)
Book-of-the-Month Club
Bouché, René, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Bourgeois, Louise, 14.1, nts.1n
Boxer, Sarah
Boyd, Brian
Bradley, Jennie (Mrs. Williams), 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 28.1, 29.1
Brancacci, Mario
Brancusi, Constantin
Brandeis University
Braque, Georges, 15.1, 27.1
Brauner, Jacqueline
Brauner, Theodore
Brauner, Victor, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 16.1, 22.1
Brave New World (Huxley)
Brennan, Maeve
Breton, André, 9.1, 18.1, 30.1
Breuer, Connie, 14.1, 23.1, 26.1
Breuer, Marcel, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 23.1, 35.1
Bridgeport, University of
Brodovitch, Alexey, 16.1, 28.1
Brodsky, Joseph
Brooks, Charlotte
Brooks, James, 9.1, 23.1
Brooks Brothers, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 19.1, 33.1
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky)
Brown, Kay
Brown, Tina, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 44.1, 44.2
Broyard, Anatole
Bruzzichelli, Aldo, 10.1
Bugnano, Carlo di
Bulgaria, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2
Buñuel, Luis, 18.1, 27.1
Burden, Amanda
Burden, Carter
Burghers of Calais, The (Rodin)
Butor, Michel, 30.1, 34.1
Buzău, Romania, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 46.1
Buzzi, Aldo, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11, 12.12, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 31.1, 31.2, 33.1, 33.2, 33.3, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4, 34.5, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 35.4, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 38.1, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 41.5, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 43.4, 44.1, 44.2, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 46.5, 47.1
Buzzi, Tommaso, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, nts.1n
Cabaret Voltaire
cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), 22.1, nts.1n
Cafavy, Constantine
Calder, Alexander “Sandy”, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 20.1, 27.1, 29.1, 30.1, 31.1, 36.1
Calder, Louisa, 13.1, 14.1, 20.1, 27.1, 31.1, 36.1
Caldwell, Erskine, 13.1, 14.1
California Council of the American Institute of Architects
California Eyes West
Calvino, Italo, 30.1, 36.1, 42.1, 44.1
Campanile, Achille, 5.1, 5.2
Campus, Eugen, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 46.1, nts.1n
Camus, Albert
Canaletto
Canal Street (Steinberg and Frazier)
Canard Enchaîné
Candide (Voltaire), 10.1, 18.1
Canfield, Cass, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1, 29.1, 43.1
Cantacuzino, George Matei
Cantemir, Dimitrie
Capote, Truman
Capri, Agnes
Carboni, Erberto, 5.1, 6.1
Carnegie, Hattie
Carnegie Institute, 12.1, 13.1, 33.1
Carol I, King of Romania, 2.1, 2.2
Carol II, King of Romania
Caron, Leslie
Carpentry and Cabinet Making (Oakwood)
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 18.1, 26.1, 30.1, 34.1, 42.1, 46.1, 46.2
Cartier-Bresson, Monique
Casanova, Giacomo
Cassino (Steinberg)
Cassola, Ada “Adina”, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1, 24.1, 27.1, 30.1, 33.1, 33.2, 34.1, 35.1, 36.1, 36.2, 37.1, 41.1, 42.1, 43.1, 45.1, 46.1, 46.2, nts.1n
Castelli, Leo
Castello Sforzesco
Catalogue, The (Steinberg)
Cathedral of Sveti-Tskhoveli
Catherine II “the Great,” Empress of Russia
Cavazza, Angela
Cavazza, Carla, 5.1, 6.1
Cavazza, Maria
Cavazza, Natalina, 5.1, 6.1
Ceaus¸escu, Nicolae, 43.1, 46.1, 46.2
Cedar Tavern, 9.1, 25.1, 25.2, 27.1
Celebrity Register
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1.1, 10.1
Century Association, 18.1, 35.1
Cézanne, Paul, 44.1, nts.1n
Chagall, Meyer
Chaplin, Charlie, 35.1, epi.1
Chaplin, Geraldine
Char, René
Charkow, Natalie
Chasen, Dave
Chekhov, Anton, 3.1, 27.1, 38.1
Chelsea Flower Show
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiaromonte, Miriam
Chiaromonte, Nicola, 12.1, 14.1, 17.1, 21.1, 22.1, 27.1, 30.1, 35.1
Chiesa, Pietro
“Chinese Lesson”
Chirico, Giorgio de
Christie’s
Christo, 30.1, 46.1, nts.1n
Chucklebait: Funny Stories for Everyone (Scoggin), 9.1, 12.1
Churchill, Winston
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cioara, Leonida
Cioran, Emil, 3.1, 43.1, 46.1
City, The (Steinberg)
Civita, Cesar, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5,
7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1
Civita, Victor, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1
Clayeux, Louis Gabriel
Clemente, Egidio
“Coast, The” (Steinberg)
Cobean, Sam, 12.1, 14.1
Cobweb, The
Codreanu, Corneliu Zelea
Cohen, Micu
Cold Cuts
Colette, 23.1, 36.1
“Collage of Indignation”
College Bowl
Columbia Pictures, 37.1, 42.1, nts.1n
Columbia University, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2, 29.1, 30.1, 30.2, 32.1, 33.1, 40.1
Comédie Humaine, La (Balzac), 13.1, 14.1
Comencini, Luigi
Coming Up for Air (Orwell)
Commentary
“Comments about buildings in USSR” (Steinberg)
communism, 12.1, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 21.1
Comptometer
Conant, James Bryant
Concert, The (Robbins)
Confucius, 14.1, 20.1
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 28.1, 31.1
Conrad, Joseph
Constructivism
Cook, Ted
Coolidge, Mrs. Harold
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Copland, Aaron
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 16.1, 34.1
Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery
Cornell, Joseph, 18.1, 20.1
Corpul Tehnical Arhitectilor (Architects’ Technical Association)
Corriere della Sera, 10.1, 21.1
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Costin, Miron
Count Ory (Rossini)
Courbet, Gustave, 35.1, 38.1, nts.1n
Courter, Elodie
“Cousins” (Steinberg)
Covarrubias, Miguel, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Covarrubias, Rosa, 13.1, 13.2
Cowles, Fleur
Credo Perspectives, 31.1, 31.2
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Crome Yellow (Huxley)
Crosby, Bing
Crowther, Prudence, 43.1, 44.1, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 46.5, 46.6, 46.7, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, epi.1, epi.2
Crucea de Piatra (Stone Cross) district
Crumb, R., 34.1, epi.1
Cubism, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 22.1, 27.1, 29.1
Cuza, Alexander Ioan, 2.1, 2.2
Dada, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1
Daedalus
Dalí, Salvador, 12.1, 24.1, 26.1
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Dal Vero (Steinberg), 41.1, 41.2
Damaz, Ala
Damisch, Hubert
Danson, Harold, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1
Danson, Henrietta Steinberg, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 37.1, 42.1, 45.1
Danto, Arthur, 43.1, 45.1
Danusso, Arturo, 5.1, 5.2
