Our summary:
In the illustration View of the World from 9th Avenue, Saul Steinberg provides a bird’s-eye view of Ninth Avenue, possibly at 56th street, toward the west. He shows that other places are not as important or lively as New York. One example of this is how he depicts the rest of the country in a very compressed, inaccurate way, misplotting cities and states and even the shape of the US. Even though he depicts New Jersey as having a border, he undermines it by calling it “Jersey,” a derogatory version of its proper name. Although he depicts Ninth and Tenth Avenues as populated with people, none of the other locations have any detail or residents. Steinberg’s playful tone emphasizes his point about the centrality of New York and the boring nature of everywhere else.
In class we looked at a picture with the title “View of the world from 9th ave” by Saul Steinberg this photo was very interesting and weird to see his view of everything. In this photo he was very detailed by putting cars, buildings, water towers, and other states and countries. It was kind of weird because he drew from 9th to 10th ave and in the background you can see Jersey and other places such as Canada, Mexico, etc. It shows that he does not care about those others states or countries. Just by the way he placed them where ever just showed that he cared and wanted people to only see 9th and 10th ave.
I was interested when i saw the picture “View of the world for 9th ave” by Saul Steinberg in class. He was very detailed in showing 9th and 10ave he showed details like cars, trucks and building. He also showed New jersey, Canada, Mexico and other places in the background but he didn’t give them there proper value by calling new jersey only jersey and putting all the states in different order where they didn’t belong. He was trying to show how great 9th and 10ave is compared to the other places.
The illustration “The View of The World from 9th Avenue” we analyzed in class was very interesting to me. It made me think if I was as arrogant as it made New Yorkers out to be. New York was very detailed and the rest of the map was way off. Jersey was just a little strip of dirt, which made it seem like nothing to New Yorkers. Washington D.C was near the Mexican border. The message from the illustration was York is way better than anywhere else and this is where everything is at.
According to the picture name The World from 9th Avenue by Saul Steinberg, shows that how he so much concern about New York Cities from 9th ave. than the rest of the U.S.A or other Second world countries like China, Russia, and Japan. The details on the pictures shows that on this very city people are occupied as the street was full with them, also the cars are running on the road, and the buildings are painted nicely, etc. This made me realize that the author cares so much about the city with all this details than rest of the world where he only illustrated the name of the countries and name of some states from U.S.A.