The Hirschfeld Century - Portrait of an Artist and His Age
by Al Hirschfeld and David Leopold
Knopf | July 2015 | ISBN: 110187497X | English | 336 pages | ePUB | 31.7 mb

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.

About the Authors
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.

CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
INTRODUCTION
THE TWENTIES
THE THIRTIES
THE FORTIES
THE FIFTIES
THE SIXTIES
THE SEVENTIES
THE EIGHTIES
THE NINETIES
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX
 
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