Literary Reference:

Figures in the Fourth Dimension

Mechanical Movement for Puppets and Automata
by Ellen Rixford

In 2015, the american artist Ellen Rixford has published a fundamental book about mechanical figures and puppets , 514 pages, DIN A4 oblong format, with excellent pictures, price 85 Euro.
You can order it from the author www.ellenrixford.com, it is also available from the book store Walther König in Köln/Germany. www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de. Order-Hotline Walther König: 0049-221-20596-0

Ellen Rixford
- explaines basic mechanics,
- describes how to build mechanical puppets,
- presents 16 contemporary automatists with selected works, among them Peter Markey, Keith Newstead, Neil Hardy, Ron Fuller and Paul Spooner,
- and describes also historical clockwork automata.
The function of the automata are described by many pictures of the devices and mechanisms, detailed three-dimensional technical drawings and exact explanations.

This book is highly recommended.

ARToy mechanical wooden toy kits

Meanwhile the Taiwanese company Evergreen International Co. offers 11 of my wooden automata kits :

Off Road, Stormy Sea, Good Fishing, Sailing into the Wind, Red Knight, Egyptian Shaduf, Miner with Windlass, Miner with Saw, Go Fly a Kite, Wimbledon und Soaring (Flying Stork). You can paint the models with acrylic colour.

For more information please look at www.go-modelshop.com in the range "ARToy - Moving Model Kit".

Available:

Pages: 112 Size: 29.5 x 21.1 x 1 cm Publisher: Dover Publications Inc Language: English ISBN-10: 0486477932 ISBN-13: 978-0486477930 Recommended age: 11 and older

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