William Heath Robinson - Softcover

Hamilton, James; Robinson, W. Heath

 
9781857936049: William Heath Robinson
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1857936043 ISBN 13: 9781857936049
Verlag: Pavilion, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) dreamed of a romantic life as an itinerant landscape painter. Instead, he remained in North London and became the greatest comic draughtsman of the century, and one of those rare individuals whose names have entered the language as adjectives. Although his name is now synonymous with any complicated, ramshackle mechanical apparatus for doing something relatively simple, the true Heath Robinson contraption was thought out with a child's solemn logic, executed with a craftsman's care, and accompanied by the ultimate in deadpan captions. In this first full account of William Heath Robinson's life and work, James Hamilton draws on the Robinson family archives to explore the personality of this convivial family man and deeply serious artist. He traces the influences on his art, the development of his uniquely individual humorous style, and the unexpected path that his career followed: the switch from landscapes to book illustration, and early success as illustrator of Poe, Rabelais and Hans Andersen; the creation of his engaging comic character Uncle Lubin, his cartoons for magazines, and the First World War anti-German satires which earned him an enth

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Verlag
Pavilion
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1857936043
ISBN 13 
9781857936049
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
151
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Buchpark GmbH
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Krügerweg 1
Trebbin
Brandenburg
14959
Deutschland

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