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It's All a Bit Heath Robinson
- Re-inventing the First World War
Engelsk Paperback
It's All a Bit Heath Robinson
- Re-inventing the First World War
Engelsk Paperback

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William Heath Robinson remains one of Britain’s best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase ‘it’s all a bit Heath Robinson’ to describe any precarious or unnecessarily complex contraption. Born in London, he originally had ambitions to be a landscape painter, but would establish his artistic reputation as a book illustrator during the genre’s so-called golden age. It was his association with weekly illustrated magazine The Sketch that was to launch and cement his legacy as a humorous artist. Combining a distinctive draughtsmanship with a curious and ingenious mind, the advent of the First World War inspired Heath Robinson to dream up a series of increasingly outlandish and bizarre military inventions with which the opposing armies would try to outwit each other. From the kaiser’s campaigning car or a suggestion for an armoured bayonet curler, to post-war ‘unbullying’ of beef, his cartoons are a fantastically absurd take on wartime technology and home-front life. Sadly, his inventions were rejected by a (fictitious) ‘Inventions Board’, but the charm and eccentricity of his ideas was loved by the public and he remains to this day one of the finest exponents of humorous British art.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9780750955942
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0750955945
Udg. Dato:
6 apr 2015
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
170mm
Højde:
192mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
6 apr 2015
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