By this point, everyone's familiar with Saul Steinberg's iconic illustration of the world as seen from Manhattan's 9th Avenue (famously gracing the cover of The New Yorker). I remember going to see an extensive Steinberg exhibit with my mother at the Whitney at some distant point, and being captivated by his fun, distinctive sketches. Whilst perusing around This Isn't Happiness this morning, I stumbled upon this comparatively rarer illustration (well, that might not be accurate but I don't ever recall seeing it), similarly capturing the artist's New York-centric perspective, only this time looking to the east. I thought I'd share it here.
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When I was a student living in Pavia there was a gelateria I used to go to which had a version of this poster on the wall, with the world stretching out from a small university town in Northern Italy.
Several years later, when I was working in a languages school in Florence, one of the classrooms had a Bavarian-centric interpretation called "Der Münchener".
I don't know if either were by the same artist, the aforementioned Mr. Steinberg.
Posted by: James Taylor | March 08, 2011 at 11:04 AM