Full Description
This title accompanies a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Following an introduction that looks at camouflage in the natural world, lively anecdotal text explores the different styles and meanings of camouflage throughout history. It looks at the interplay between modern military developments and the worlds of art, design and popular culture.
Contents
1. Introduction by Jonathan Miller; 2. Early InspirationsWorld; Pattern to Conceal and Confuse; Military Display and Military Disguise; 3. Dazzling the Enemy: The Threat from the Skies Disruptive Pattern; Picasso, Modernist Art and Camouflage; The Dazzle Ball of 1919; 4. Developing Disguise: The First Camouflage-Printed Uniforms; Professor Schick's SS Forest Patterns; Inflatable Tanks and Fake Oil Terminals; Camouflage and the Cambridge Zoologist; 5. Camo Triumphant: Camouflage as Identity as well as Disguise; Tropical Wars, Tropical Patterns; Warhol and Panton, Art and Furniture; High-tech Textiles: the Future of Camouflage.
