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Dazzle - Disguise and Disruption in War and Art (Hardcover)
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Dazzle - Disguise and Disruption in War and Art (Hardcover)
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While it is a constant throughout history that conflict has
inspired and engendered great art, it is a much rarer event for art
to impact directly upon the vicissitudes of war. Yet, in the course
of the First World War, a collision of naval strategy and the
nascent modern art movement, led to some two thousand British ships
going to sea as the largest painted modernist canvases in the world
covered in abstract, clashing, decorative, and geometric designs in
a myriad of colors. Dazzle camouflage had arrived.Heavily inspired
by the Cubism and British Vorticism art movements, dazzle was
conceived and developed by celebrated artist and then naval
commander Norman Wilkinson. Dazzle camouflage rejects concealment
in favor of disruption. It seeks to break up a ship's silhouette
with brightly contrasting geometric designs to make a vessel's
speed and direction incredible difficult to discern. False painted
bow-waves and sterns were used to confuse and throw off the deadly
U-boat captains. The high contrast shapes and colors further made
it very difficult to match up a ship in the two halves of an
optical naval rangefinder. This new book traces the development of
the dazzle aesthetic from theory into practice and beyond.
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