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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2020, 12:41:23 AM

Title: Heath Robinson
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2020, 12:41:23 AM

Some lovely stuff here

https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/05/07/the-peculiar-art-of-over-complicating-things/?fbclid=IwAR2CXEE9R2Xl1CFx7gf1yrRvEndDm7q-jJAlkoHcV9RasnizodEi3LPEra8

Title: Re: Heath Robinson
Post by: Owlswing on September 30, 2020, 02:48:05 AM

   A Genius!

Title: Re: Heath Robinson
Post by: Steve H on September 30, 2020, 07:05:53 AM

Love Heath Robinson. I've got a book of his railway-themed cartoons called 'Railway Ribaldry', which I bought in the 70s, and which is a facsimile of a book from the 30s, and 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales', published by the Folio Society, a facsimile of a volume published before WW1, with illustrations by him: his serious illustrations for books such as that are gorgeous.

Title: Re: Heath Robinson
Post by: Owlswing on September 30, 2020, 07:43:56 AM

  Somewhere in the storage unit still to be moved into my new home, I have his First and Second World War books which were gifted to me just prior to my moving and I have yet to read.

  I seem to remember, going back a fair way, an article by one of the gentleman's fans who, with a couple of friends, had created one or two his inventions and shown that they would actually have worked.