Hirschfeld The Biography by Ellen Stern

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epub | 1.01 MB | English | Isbn:9781510759411 | Author: Ellen Stern | Year: 2021
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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...

Category:Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers, Biographies of the Rich & Famous, Artist & Architect Biographies

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