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