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Life as Art

A Romanian Jew in Italy

Paradise Lost

No Exit 

An Aborted Escape

On Paperwork Trail

Internment

Saul Steinberg's Journal, December 1940 - June 1941

“I didn’t want to accept the reality, the betrayal—
the way dearest Italy turned into Romania, hellish homeland.” 2

Life as Art

For most of his adult life, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) drew maps—maps of real or imaginary locations, maps of words and of concepts. Often the maps are of actual places refracted through the artist’s mental constructs, as in View of the World from 9th Avenue, his famous March 29, 1976 New Yorker cover, which, reprinted as a poster, copied, and appropriated for many other cities of the world, became his personal nightmare; even today, it remains the icon that most easily identifies him.3 There is, however, another splendid map, completed ten years earlier; although intended for The New Yorker, it was never fully published in Steinberg’s lifetime (Fig. 1).4 Entitled Autogeography

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