Heath Robinson: How to be a Motorist

「How to be a Motorist」は、ヒース・ロビンソンの「美しくてばかげたドローイング」がH.G.ウェルズに「世界で他に類を見ない心の喜びを与える」と言わしめた、彼の代表作の一つです。
自動車の仕組みの説明から、簡単な修理、さらには自動車やキャラバンを使った大陸横断の旅の仕方まで、幅広いトピックがユーモラスなイラストと共に紹介されています。この本は、1939年に初版が出版され、その後も何度も再版されています。

ヒース・ロビンソンは、日常生活の不条理を風刺することで知られ、そのドローイングは今日でも多くの人々に愛され続けています。
単なる笑いを提供するだけでなく、私たちの複雑で機械化された現代生活に対する洞察を与えてくれます。
自動車好きな方だけでなく、機械に囲まれた生活に一息つきたいと思っているすべての人にとって、おすすめです。

機会の絵を好んで描いてきたイギリスのヒース・ロビンソンのユーモアと創造性が詰まった本です。

Heath Robinson: How to be a Motorist
by W.Heath Robinson (Author) , K.R.G. Browne (Author)
Format:Hardback 128 pages, 111 Illustrations, black and white
Publisher:Bodleian Library
Imprint:Bodleian Library
Edition:2 ed
ISBN:9781851244348
Published:20 Feb 2015
Weight:222g
Dimensions:195 x 121 x 17 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Description
W. Heath Robinson is best known for his hilarious drawings of zany contraptions, though his work ranged across a wide variety of topics covering many aspects of British life in the decades following the First World War. Starting out as a watercolour artist, he quickly turned to the more lucrative field of book illustration and developed his forte in satirical drawings and cartoons.

He was regularly commissioned by the editors of Tatler and The Sketch and in great demand from advertising companies. Collections of his drawings were subsequently published in many different editions and became so successful as to transform Heath Robinson into a household name, celebrated for his eccentric brand of British humour. Presenting such innovations as the ‘Zip-Opening Bonnet’, the ‘Duo-car for the Incompatible’ and the handy ‘New Rear Wheel Gear for Turning the Car in One Movement’, this volume of Heath Robinson illustrations with commentary by K.R.G.

Browne will appeal to ‘everybody who is ever likely to drive, be driven in, or get run over by a mechanically propelled vehicle’.