Anthropomorphism

The tendency to attribute human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals and others. This issue occurs regularly in discussions about characterisation.

Can the host object sustain the whole scale of characterisation ?

What physical parts of the object can be exploited to draw it nearer the humanoid ?

Once the shape has been established, how flexible will it be ?

How much disbelief needs be suspended ?

J.J.GRANDVILLE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF ANIMALS 1842

EUGEN OSSWALD Bal der Tiere animals

DADDY GRUMBLER The Book of the Four Colour Pencils 1948

Jean De La Fontinelle, Le Pays de Calcul, 1947 Mathematics

Boris Artzybasheff , Machines

Walter Potter, Tableaux of Animals

postcards ILES CHAUSEY - the Elephant and Le Robinson

Ruth Gannett, Hi-Po the Hippo 1944 (policemen hippos)

Nus et Meray, L'Empire des Legumes nd Paris 1861

Telephone Charges Down 1938

'Pleased to Meet you Lady" GERMS IN A SAUCEPAN 1938

VP Wine, boozy TV 1954

Insects as Musicians, Frohlich's Fables 1829, illustration by Martin Disteli

Electric Muscles Power the Modern Home 1960