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Contraptions: a timely new edition by a legend of inventive illustrations and cartoon wizardry
£19.00£23.80 (-20%)
Heath Robinson was one of Britain’s most successful graphic artists. His work has had a huge influence on comic art in this country, but also on the image and self-image of the British. As the champion of pragmatic man, Heath Robinson presented a vision of the British as an unflappable, ingenious and slightly demented breed of inventors that persists to the present day. The British are still a nation of garage-haunting amateur engineers who will recognise the inhabitants of Heath Robinson’s world, with their pot bellies and pots of tea, archaic faces and sturdily commonsensical approach to the problems of existence. How to hunt tigers by elephant, how to get an even tan, rise with the sun or put out a chimney fire, these and many more pressing questions are answered in the pages of Contraptions. With illustrations salvaged from the family archives and commentary by Heath Robinson expert, Geoffrey Beare, Contraptions is the best possible introduction to the work of one of Britain’s great comic talents.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Duckworth (25 Nov. 2021) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 192 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 178842381X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1788423816 |
| Dimensions | 28.6 x 2.3 x 22.3 cm |
by Gideon
Really enjoying it.
Keep going back to it.
Quirky.
by Amazon Customer
Would like a few more colour illustrations .. But a nice book. gift
by Abai
For those who said the print sucks, come on it’s from early century, common sense. Best art from the artist.
by Gideon
For those hoping to have excellent quality prints of these excellent Heath Robinson artworks you’ll be very disappointed in the mixed quality this book offers. While it contains a good range of illustrations, some pages are sharp, clean, well colour adjusted images, while many pages (including some of the best illustrations) are blurred low-resolution images with muddy details (see image of one blurred image, followed by a sharp one on the next page). The variable print quality is inexplicable. A really disappointing purchase given as a gift.
by Ephy Chesler
Mechanically convoluted depictions.
by Ben Leah
Homour, satire and enginnering mix together in this wonderful journey through Heath Robinson’s illustration. As a child, my parents had an early book of his collective work and use to spend hours, absorbed by the intricacy of the illustrations — I used to love drawing my own Heath Robinson-esque creations and so bought this book to hopefully share that with my own children.
by P. B. MACHIN
Brilliant inventions that gave the world a new description of equipment -Heath Robinsonish !!
by G. Moore
The perfect coffee table book