The Line
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Beschreibung
The Line (1954), a 33-foot-long drawing with 29 folded panels is Steinberg’s manifesto about the conceptual possibilities of the line and the artist who gives them life. His drawing hand begins and ends the sequence, as the simple horizontal line that hand creates metamorphoses into, among other things, a water line, laundry line, railroad track, sidewalk, arithmetic division line, or table edge; near the end, the curlicues etched by the iceskater’s blade remind us of the role calligraphy plays in Steinberg’s art. As it shifts meaning from one passage to the next, Steinberg’s line comments on its own transformative nature. The entire drawing has now been published by Nieves Books in a beautifully printed accordion foldout.
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Benjamin Sommerhalder
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Original 1954, Illustration, New Yorker, Kunst,