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The Hirschfeld Century : Portrait of an Artist and His Age by Al Hirschfeld (2015, Hardcover)

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I am down to a pencil, a pen, and a bottle of ink. I hope one day to eliminate the pencil. Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature and exemplified Broadway and Hollywood, enchanting generations with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as on numerous book, record, and program covers; film posters and publicity art; and on fifteen U.S. postage stamps. Now, The Hirschfeld Century brings together for the first time the artist's extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs--his influences, his techniques, his evolution from his earliest works to his last drawings, and with a biographical text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld authority, who, as archivist to the artist, worked side by side with him and has spent more than twenty years documenting the artist's extraordinary output. Here is Hirschfeld at age seventeen, working in the publicity department at Goldwyn Pictures (1920-1921), rising from errand boy to artist; his year at Universal (1921); and, beginning at age eighteen, art director at Selznick Pictures, headed by Louis Selznick (father of David O.) in New York. We see Hirschfeld, at age twenty-one, being influenced by the stylized drawings of Miguel Covarrubias, newly arrived from Mexico (they shared a studio on West Forty-Second Street), whose caricatures appeared in many of the most influential magazines, among them Vanity Fair . We see, as well, how Hirschfeld's friendship with John Held Jr. (Held's drawings literally created the look of the Jazz Age) was just as central as Covarrubias to the young artist's development, how Held's thin line affected Hirschfeld's early caricatures. Here is the Hirschfeld century , from his early doodles on the backs of theater programs in 1926 that led to his work for the drama editors of the New York Herald Tribune (an association that lasted twenty years) to his receiving a telegram from The New York Times, in 1928, asking for a two-column drawing of Sir Harry Lauder, a Scottish vaudeville singing sensation making one of his (many) farewell tours, an assignment that began a collaboration with the Times that lasted seventy-five years, to Hirschfeld's theater caricatures, by age twenty-five, a drawing appearing every week in one of four different New York newspapers. Here, through Hirschfeld's pen, are Ethel Merman, Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, the Marx Brothers, Barbra Streisand, Elia Kazan, Mick Jagger, Ella Fitzgerald, Laurence Olivier, Martha Graham, et al. . . . Among the productions featured: Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Rent, Guys and Dolls, The Wizard of Oz (Hirschfeld drew five posters for the original release), Gone with the Wind, The Sopranos, and more. Here as well are his brilliant portraits of writers, politicians, and the like, among them Ernest Hemingway (a pal from 1920s Paris), Tom Wolfe, Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. Sumptuous and ambitious, a book that gives us, through images and text, a Hirschfeld portrait of an artist and his age.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
110187497x
ISBN-13
9781101874974
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309669971

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Book Title
Hirschfeld Century : Portrait of an Artist and His Age
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Techniques / Cartooning, Individual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Author
Al Hirschfeld
Format
Hardcover

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1.1 in
Item Weight
54.9 Oz
Item Length
10.4 in
Item Width
9.6 in

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Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Al Hirschfeld's THE HIRSCHFELD CENTURY Edited and with text by David Leopold "Gloriously illustrated . . . star-studded, anecdote-rich, critically clarifying, and thoroughly enlightening." - Booklist (Starred Review) "Lively . . . comprehensive . . . passionate . . . a diverting study of a towering figure in 20th century illustration." - Publishers Weekly "Richly illustrated . . . An intelligent, carefully representative look at Hirschfeld's work that ably shows why the artist deserves to be remembered today." - Kirkus
Lccn
2014-047134
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
741.5/6973
Lc Classification Number
Nc1429.H527l46 2015
Copyright Date
2015

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4 out of 5 stars
by reuse-enjoyFeb 09, 2016
Al Hirschfeld book
it's a beautiful book, very elegant. The only negative is that it is a gift for someone named Nina, and many of the drawings do not have Hirschfeld's daughter's name hidden in them. Or maybe they do, but the reproductions didn't include the number of "Ninas" after his signature. Still, it's a lovely book.
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4 out of 5 stars
by 59livingstonSep 13, 2015
Buying more of them for Christmas and Hanukkah gifts!
This is the same book that is sold at the exhibition at the NY Historical Society. It is really nice quality and makes an excellent gift. People are absolutely fascinated with each other! The only reason I gave it four stars rather than five is that there are so many caricatures of Broadway stars, it's best for those who live in the NY area and/or are familiar with the theater world. If so, the book is wonderful! If not, the only drawings that will mean anything to you are of Hollywood movies and TV shows-perhaps one third of the total.
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by vanduser8022Sep 25, 2022
Good coffee table book
Fine artist - shows his work & comments on its impact
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5 out of 5 stars
by louiethelowDec 31, 2015
If you are a Hirschfeld devotee, and who would not be if you are a theatre aficionado, then this book is a delight to own and page through. It gives
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by imp05Jul 29, 2019
Great collection of Als art. His style is very inspiring.
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Buying more of them for Christmas and Hanukkah gifts!

Good coffee table book

If you are a Hirschfeld devotee, and who would not be if you are a theatre aficionado, then this book is a delight to own and page through. It gives

Great collection of Als art. His style is very inspiring.

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