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Very Heath Robinson - Stories of His Absurdly Ingenious World (Hardcover)
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Very Heath Robinson - Stories of His Absurdly Ingenious World (Hardcover)
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'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) This book
takes a nostalgic look back to 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'. Yet his elaborate drawings of
contraptions are not the only thing to make this book very Heath
Robinson. Full of quirky images from Romans wearing polka dots to
balding men seducing mermaids, Very Heath Robinson presents an
unconventional history of the world in which technology and its
social setting get equal billing.
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