Very Heath Robinson by Adam Hart-Davis. Engelsk humor

Product details

Publisher : Sheldrake Press (April 1, 2017)

Language : English

Hardcover : 240 pages

Item Weight : 1,8 kg

Dimensions : 28, 5 cm x 27,3 cm

Tilstand, meget pen, se bilder, de er del av beskrivelsen.

PORTO: 69kr (sporbar og forsikret m Postnord) eller Fix Ferdig

OM BOKEN:

A look on the imaginative and often frivolous world of William Heath Robinson, one of the few artists to have given his name to the English language.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression Heath Robinson is used to describe "any absurdly ingenious and impracticable device of the kind illustrated by this artist."

Very Heath Robinson presents an unconventional history of the world in which technology and its social setting get equal billing.

William Heath Robinson started out as a landscape artist and book illustrator, but later turned his hand to drawing humorous illustrations for magazines such as the Sketch and Tatler. His drawings were reproduced worldwide and with his fame came new clients. Companies such as Burberry, Johnnie Walker, and General Electric sought out Heath Robinson to promote their products using his cartoon-style humor.

The book contains more than 200 Heath Robinson illustrations as well as photographs of Heath Robinson-designed book covers, postcards, Christmas cards, leaflets, biscuit tins, and murals.

With the book comes an augmented reality app so you can interact with some of the most detailed illustrations in 3D.

"I have been ill and frightfully bored and the one thing I have wanted is a big album of your absurd beautiful drawings to turn over. You give me a peculiar pleasure of the mind like nothing else in the world." —H. G. Wells to W. Heath Robinson (1914)

England

understatement

praktbok

kunstbok

humor

politisk kommentar

ironi

satire