The Hirschfeld Century

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101874988
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hirschfeld Century by : Al Hirschfeld

Download or read book The Hirschfeld Century written by Al Hirschfeld and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Hirschfeld

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Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781510759404
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (594 download)

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Book Synopsis Hirschfeld by : Ellen Stern

Download or read book Hirschfeld written by Ellen Stern and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Al Hirchfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life—as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and—his favorite—celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends—Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan—flocked in and out. He played the piano, went to jazz joints with Eugene O'Neill, and wrote a musical that bombed. He drove until he was ninety-eight years old and always found a parking space. He worked every day, threw dinner parties twice a week, and hosted New Year's Eve soirees that were legendary. He had three wives, a formidable agent, and a daughter, Nina, the most famous little girl that no one knows. Hirschfeld died in 2003, at the age of ninety-nine. "If you live long enough," he liked to say, "everything happens." For him, it did. And good and bad—it's all here. Through interviews with Hirschfeld himself, his friends and family (including the mysterious Nina), and his famous subjects, as well as through letters, scrapbooks, and home movies, Ellen Stern has crafted a delightful, detailed, and definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and most influential, artists.

Hirschfeld's Harlem

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Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hirschfeld's Harlem written by Al Hirschfeld and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings by the famed illustrator depict the music, theater, performers, culture, and moods of Harlem, accompanied by commentary by such notables as Savion Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Howard Dodson, Rev. James A. Forbes Jr., Chester Higgins Jr., Geoffrey Holder, Quincy Jones, Carmen de Lavallade, Audra McDonald, Arthur Mitchell, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Albert L. Murray, Charles B. Rangel, Bobby Short, George C. Wolfe, and Cicely Tyson.

Hirschfeld

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557833563
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Hirschfeld written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caricatures, photographs, and other works from throughout the artist's career are accompanied by his own comments and essays by family members and associates

Hirschfeld's Hollywood

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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810990524
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Hirschfeld's Hollywood by : David Leopold

Download or read book Hirschfeld's Hollywood written by David Leopold and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an exhibition at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this book recounts Hirshfeld's career as a graphic artist, and reprints 100 plus drawings, paintings, collages, posters, billboards, and murals. Classic caricatures and behind-the scenes perspectives of major players in Hollywood are accompanied by more vibrantly colored works. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Hirschfeld's New York

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
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Book Synopsis Hirschfeld's New York by : Clare Bell

Download or read book Hirschfeld's New York written by Clare Bell and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Al Hirschfeld's cartoons to accompany an exhibition at he Museum of the City of New York. Besides his famous caricatures of stage and screen stars, he includes scenes of New York City. Bell is a writer and art historian formerly with the Museum. c. Book News Inc.

The Speakeasies of 1932

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836762
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Speakeasies of 1932 written by Al Hirschfeld and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). When Manhattan joints were hung out to dry, the Booze-oizie sniveled, then pirouetted on their stools to find reasonably palatable Speakeasy facsimiles. These Prohibition hangouts each had their own flavor, decorum, decor and formula for ducking the law. Each found its own alcoholic substratum: its own inimitable characters behind, at and under the bar. Fear not all has not been lost to the repeal of the 18th Amendment, Starbucks corporate latte, and the wrecking ball. One intoxicating artifact remains, a book of lustrous vintage Al Hirschfeld's The Speakeasies of 1932 , wherein Hirschfeld nails these dipsomaniacal outposts with his pen and brush in the manner of a dour Irish bartender sizing up a troublesome souse. Provided as well is the recipe for each of the speakeasy's cocktail claim to fame. The resulting concoction is the perfect antidote to the Cappuccino Grande Malaise, a book that will make everyone yearn for a Manhattan, old fashioned, and straight up. "His comments are as swooping and witty as his lines." The New Yorker

Gypsy

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559360869
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Book Synopsis Gypsy by : Jule Styne

Download or read book Gypsy written by Jule Styne and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest musicals of all time, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a famous burlesque stripper. The musical focuses on her overbearing mother, Rose, the quintessential stage mother, as she pushes Gypsy (then known as Louise) and her sister June into life on the vaudeville circuit, forever trying to break into the big time. The musical contains many songs that have become popular standards, including 'Everything's Coming up Roses' and 'Let Me Entertain You'. Gypsy was premiered on Broadway in May 1959 at The Broadway Theatre (transferring to the Imperial Theatre), directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, with Ethel Merman starring as Rose.

Hirschfeld, Al

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Download or read book Hirschfeld, Al written by Al Hirschfeld and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The library continues to add material to its files, including articles, biographies, bibliographies, photographs, reviews, small catalogs, invitations, and correspondence.

The American Theatre As Seen by Hirschfeld

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ISBN 13 : 9781258809591
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The American Theatre As Seen by Hirschfeld written by Albert Hirschfeld and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hirschfeld's World

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Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hirschfeld's World written by Al Hirschfeld and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1981 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Westward Ha! Around The World In 80 Cliches

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Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306802294
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Westward Ha! Around The World In 80 Cliches written by S.j. Perelman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1984-08-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crazy and in Charge

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ISBN 13 : 9781410785718
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis Crazy and in Charge by : Abraham Hirschfeld

Download or read book Crazy and in Charge written by Abraham Hirschfeld and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fast moving page-turner, Louise Coffman takes the reader back to eighteenth century Germany, to Abner as he turns ten on the first day of being a refugee. Led by his grandpa, the members of his illegal religious group walk most of the time for nearly a thousand miles toward safety, never knowing who is their friend, who is their enemy, or where danger might originate. They have exciting adventures and encounter unusual characters, some of whom join them in their flight to freedom, while others threaten their lives. There are moments of joy, sorrow, hunger, fatigue, humor, anger, revenge- the range of human emotions, as Abner learns life's lessons. Most Americans know about the Pilgrims and how they left England to worship as their consciences dictated. However, few Americans of German descent seem to be aware of their ancestors' Pre-American history, and the reasons they left the old country in the 1700s. Historically accurate, Abner's Escape explores those reasons, as well as delving into the rapidly disappearing Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture in a most charming way. Suitable for the family, Abner's Escape is a sequel to Abner's Story. It can stand alone and be thoroughly enjoyed.

MetaMaus

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 037542394X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Book Synopsis MetaMaus by : Art Spiegelman

Download or read book MetaMaus written by Art Spiegelman and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER • Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals. In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago. He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process. Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right.

The Algonquin Wits

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Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806509471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Algonquin Wits written by Robert E. Drennan and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wit at the poker table tended to be less sophisticated than the luncheon banter - one can't consider the possibilities of a three card flush and simultaneously create nifties - but it was at the poker table that the Round Tablers revealed, in their firehouse funnies, their substantially small town origins. Every one of them came from the hinterlands exept my father.

The Real World of College

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262046539
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Real World of College written by Wendy Fischman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission. For The Real World of College, Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,000 students, alumni, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, and others, which were conducted at ten institutions ranging from highly selective liberal arts colleges to less-selective state schools. What they found challenged characterizations in the media: students are not preoccupied by political correctness, free speech, or even the cost of college. They are most concerned about their GPA and their resumes; they see jobs and earning potential as more important than learning. Many say they face mental health challenges, fear that they don’t belong, and feel a deep sense of alienation. Given this daily reality for students, has higher education lost its way? Fischman and Gardner contend that US universities and colleges must focus sharply on their core educational mission. Fischman and Gardner, both recognized authorities on education and learning, argue that higher education in the United States has lost sight of its principal reason for existing: not vocational training, not the provision of campus amenities, but to increase what Fischman and Gardner call “higher education capital”—to help students think well and broadly, express themselves clearly, explore new areas, and be open to possible transformations. Fischman and Gardner offer cogent recommendations for how every college can become a community of learners who are open to change as thinkers, citizens, and human beings.

Hirschfeld

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510759417
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Hirschfeld written by Ellen Stern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life—as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and—his favorite—celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends—Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan—flocked in and out. He played the piano, went to jazz joints with Eugene O'Neill, and wrote a musical that bombed. He drove until he was ninety-eight years old and always found a parking space. He worked every day, threw dinner parties twice a week, and hosted New Year's Eve soirees that were legendary. He had three wives, a formidable agent, and a daughter, Nina, the most famous little girl that no one knows. Hirschfeld died in 2003, at the age of ninety-nine. "If you live long enough," he liked to say, "everything happens." For him, it did. And good and bad—it's all here. Through interviews with Hirschfeld himself, his friends and family (including the mysterious Nina), and his famous subjects, as well as through letters, scrapbooks, and home movies, Ellen Stern has crafted a delightful, detailed, and definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and most influential, artists.