WOF8
Weird object friday is here again!
These pictures come from an art book by Saul Steinberg called “The Art Of Living”. It was published in the forties and had resided in my parents house while I was growing up. I have loved this book since I was a child and I remember looking at it many times through the years. Well, it belongs to me now.
I know that this book has influenced my daughter the artist, and that she has also looked at it many, many times through the years. Sometimes after spending the night at our home, I will find it on the window seat by her bed, so I know she still likes to look through it. I present it for my weird object post because as you can see, These drawings are quite odd in character.
Want more of weird object Friday? Follow these four links: Margaret’s blog Jessica’s blog Ben’s blog (Margaret’s brother Ben not my son Ben) & Gerry’s blog Would you like to join us?
And a warm welcome to Gerry, who is our newest member of the weird object friday crew!
FYI- Gerry is also back up and running and has a W.O.F. today. Go look- the link is on my blog. It’s a good one.
I like your book. My prediction is that Megan will own that book some day..
Comment by Margaret — April 4, 2008 @ 5:17 pm
Gerry is now linked here too. I will have to wait for Ben to return to be able to comment on her blog as me. I need him to install an open ID plug-in first. He tried to explain what this is to me but I didn’t quite understand.
Comment by admin — April 4, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
Kind of reminds me of and extreme James Thurber, if that makes any sense.
Comment by Ben — April 4, 2008 @ 7:35 pm
I google image searched for Thurber cartoons. Now I see what you mean.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=thurber+cartoons&gbv=2
Comment by admin — April 4, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
Now I know why it is familiar, though. Saul Steinberg’s work is all over the New Yorker magazine, like for six decades, which our parents subscribed to since we were babies.
Comment by Ben — April 4, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
Those are really neat drawings. They are fun to look at.
Comment by Jessica — April 4, 2008 @ 8:16 pm
I bet no matter how many times you look at the first drawing you see something different. It reminds me of the I Spy books we did with the kids when they were small. We would spend hours going over the pictures. So many details to discover.
Comment by gerry — April 4, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
The entire book is like that. All the pictures look like elaborate doodles.
Comment by admin — April 4, 2008 @ 11:59 pm