George, Jennifer. New York: Abrams ComicArts, Goldberg, Rube. New York: N. Watts, Inc. Goldberg, Rube and Philip Garner. In these, Goldberg put his talents in engineering to an unpredictable use: he created and annotated, in painstaking detail, utterly complicated and outlandish mechanisms that performed what should have been simple, straightforward tasks. His intention was to point out, in a humorous way, "man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimum results.
A Goldberg "invention" is not easy to describe in less than a couple hundred words, but a quick view of even one of them makes their spirit plain. One can see from his devices that Goldberg, despite or because of his training, was actually rather leery of technology.
The "works" of his inventions tend to be composed of sunlight, running water, plants, and pets more often than mechanical devices. Thus, Goldberg was spoofing modern Americans' romance with technology as well as their refusal to do things simply. Another important feature of Goldberg's inventions is that they all do in fact work some, weather permitting. That is, they are practicable though impractical. Above all, they are memorable, in spirit if not in detail.
Rube Goldberg was already a cultural hero when he died in , and he has left a tremendous legacy. He was a heavy cigar smoker and felt a person had a right to pollute the air around them as they saw fit.
His opinion of politicians was formed during his early years and influenced by his father's involvement in politics in San Francisco. In many of his cartoons, politicians are depicted as well-dressed, cigar smoking, pot-bellied men blowing a lot of hot air useful to power the latest mechanical contraption. And certainly, the engineer in him was fascinated with inventions and how things work. In the last decade of his life, Rube turned to sculpture. While his new art form did not radiate the humor of his invention cartoons, his detailed style was still evident in his life-like depiction of animals, people and objects.
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Reuben Lucius Goldberg was an engineer, inventor, cartoonist and sculptor. Born in in San Francisco, Rube Goldberg began practicing his art skills at the age of four when he traced illustrations from the humorous book History of the United States.
At the age of eight, he was obsessed with line drawings and continued to trace from books, newspapers and calendars.
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