The Hirschfeld Century : Portrait of an Artist and his age - Portrait of an Artist and His Age

Zusatztext 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 Informationen zum Autor AL HIRSCHFELD  was born in St. Louis in 1903, grew up in New York City, and studied at the Art Students League. His work is in the collections of many museums, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Harvard Fogg Museum. Hirschfeld died in 2003 at the age of ninety-nine.     DAVID LEOPOLD  was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and studied at the University of Pittsburgh. He has organized several landmark exhibitions on a variety of aspects of Hirschfeld’s art, among them Hirschfeld’s Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He lives near Philadelphia.   http://www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org Klappentext 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,...

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• Authors: Al Hirschfeld, Al Leopold Hirschfeld, Al/ Leopold Hirschfeld, David Leopold
• Assisted by: David Leopold (Editor)
• Publisher: Knopf
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781101874974
• ISBN: 978-1-101-87497-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 901 g
• Series: ALFRED A. KNOPF; KNOPF; Knopf
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business