Research Catalog

Title

The Hirschfeld century : portait of an artist and his age / Al Hirschfeld ; edited, and with text, by David Leopold.

Author

Leopold, David, 1965-

Publication

• Gütersloh, Germany : Mohn Media.
• New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
• ©2015.

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Additional Authors

• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. publisher.
• Hirschfeld, Al.
• Mohn Media, printer.
• North Market Street Graphics, compositor.
• Weinstein, Iris,

Description

xi, 320 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"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" --

Subject

• American wit and humor, Pictorial
• Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > In art
• Hirschfeld, Al > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The twenties -- The thirties -- The forties -- The fifties -- The sixties -- The seventies -- The eighties -- The nineties -- The twenty-first century.

ISBN

• 9781101874974
• 110187497X
• 9781101874981 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014047134

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library