Hirschfeld : the biography / Ellen Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Ellen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hirschfeld, Al.

Cartoonists--United States--Biography.

Cartoonists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

A detailed and definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and most influential caricaturists and artists.

"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."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Meet Him in St. Louis

2. Manhattan Transfer

3. Poster Boy

4. Flo

5. An American in Paris

6. Lines in the Sand

7. His Infinite Variety

8. Babe in the Woods

9. To Russia with Love

10. The Times of His Life

11. Bali High

12. The Girlfriend

13. And Read All Over

14. Fiddling on the Roof

15. Party Lines

16. Hello, Dolly

17. War and Pieces

18. The Wonder Child

19. Show on the Road

20. Travels with Sidney

21. House and Home

22. On the Block

23. Wall to Wall

24. Facing Facts

25. A Heavenly Host

26. Game of the Name

27. Behind the Scenes

28. How Many Ninas?

29. A Piece of Work

30. Wheeling, Dealing

31. Lone Star

32. Out of Line

33. Changing Times

34. Sing Out, Louise!

35. Pointing Fingers

36. End of the Line

37. Ever After.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-409) and index.

ISBN:

9781510759404

1510759409

OCLC:

1229170300