{"product_id":"9780750955942-its-all-a-bit-heath-robinson","title":"It's All a Bit Heath Robinson","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRe-inventing the First World War\u003cbr\u003eWilliam 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Heath Robinson remains one of Britain’s best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase ‘\u003ci\u003eit’s all a bit Heath Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e’ to describe any precarious or unnecessarily complex contraption. \u003c\/b\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943282716769,"sku":"9780750955942","price":7.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30141234.jpg?v=1726732525","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780750955942-its-all-a-bit-heath-robinson","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}