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Hirschfeld on line

Author: Al Hirschfeld
Publisher: New York : Applause, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Hirschfeld On Line is just that - it's Al Hirschfeld "on" Hirschfeld, as the master turns his quick quill pen to prose in order to comment, critique, explicate, and occasionally even lampoon his own artwork, from the very first theatre drawings he did in the mid-Twenties up to (nearly) last week." "Here is Hirschfeld on the dramatic and droll stories behind his scenes, as well as those of the Broadway stages he's  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Caricatures and cartoons
Biography
Named Person: Al Hirschfeld
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Al Hirschfeld
ISBN: 1557833567 : 9781557833563
OCLC Number: 50661345
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Contents: On Hirschfeld. The Broadway artist / Mel Gussow ; Looking over his shoulder / Louise Kerz Hirschfeld ; My Al Hirschfeld / Whoopi Goldberg ; Al Hirschfeld, the maker of icons / Kurt Vonnegut ; High style and Hirschfeld / Grace Mirabella ; Al Hirschfeld's secret / Arthur Miller ; Growing up in [my father's] pictures / Nina --
Youth and young manhood --
Photographs by Hirschfeld --
The middle years --
Hirschfeld in color --
The later years --
Index.
Responsibility: Al Hirschfeld.

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"Hirschfeld On Line is just that - it's Al Hirschfeld "on" Hirschfeld, as the master turns his quick quill pen to prose in order to comment, critique, explicate, and occasionally even lampoon his own artwork, from the very first theatre drawings he did in the mid-Twenties up to (nearly) last week." "Here is Hirschfeld on the dramatic and droll stories behind his scenes, as well as those of the Broadway stages he's covered graphically since the American theatre came of age with O'Neill and Show Boat. Here are his most famous and enduring images like that one of Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, or that long-striding one of Robert Preston in The Music Man, or that one of, well, the list - the distinguished line - goes on and on. He tells us at long last not only why he draws but what and how he has drawn it." "For those who've missed the past seventy-five years of opening nights on Broadway and would like to catch up, this is the book for them. For those who would like a pictorial summation of our time - from the early, "hopeful" years of Soviet Russia to the final, cynical episode of Seinfeld, this book is for them. And for those who would just like to know how and why Al Hirschfeld started putting all those NINAs into each and every one of his drawings - and why no power on earth can now grant him leave to cease and desist - this book is essential."--BOOK JACKET.

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