Description
Product ID: | 9781786645418 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | CN |
Series: | Masterpieces of Art |
Title: | Heath Robinson Masterpieces of Art |
Authors: | Author: Susan Grange |
Page Count: | 128 |
Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Individual artists, art monographs, Comic book & cartoon art |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Illustrator and cartoonist W. Heath Robinson is renowned for his ingenious, haphazard contraptions. His work is steeped in the humour of calamity and his name became synonymous for absurd and makeshift devices. This delightful new book is packed with madcap designs, and the delicate watercolour illustrations which continue to delight us all today. Illustrator and cartoonist W. Heath Robinson is renowned for his ingenious and haphazard contraptions. His witty drawings of complicated machines, are ironically designed to simplify everyday life, but always manage to make everything appear more complicated! His work is steeped in the humour of calamity and his name soon became synonymous for absurd and makeshift devices. This delightful new book is packed with his madcap designs and the delicate watercolour illustrations which continue to delight us all today. |
Imprint Name: | Flame Tree Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Flame Tree Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-08-21 |