Dazzle
Disguise and Disruption in War and Art
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2016
Naval Institute Press (Verlag)
978-1-59114-636-0 (ISBN)
Naval Institute Press (Verlag)
978-1-59114-636-0 (ISBN)
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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.
James Taylor is a former curator of paintings at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. His most recent books include Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster Marine Painting and Careless Talk Costs.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.11.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 141 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Annopolis |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59114-636-4 / 1591146364 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59114-636-0 / 9781591146360 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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