Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook: An Anthology of Writings About Ship Camouflage During World War I
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0971324476 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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An unprecedented research collection, the book concludes with a 40-page camouflage bibliography, the largest ever compiled on that subject (not just ship camouflage). This is an anthology of twenty-six all but unknown writings about World War I ship camouflage, published during and after the war. These are supplemented by brief eyewitness comments from the same era, and rare historic ship photographs, diagrams and news clippings. It became known by such names as "dazzle camouflage," "baffle painting," "jazz painting" and "parti-coloring." In publications at the time, it was frequently compared to Modern-era styles of art, including cubism, futurism, vorticism and surrealism. Edited by the author of the highly acclaimed False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage (2002); and Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage (2009).. Did dazzle camouflage actually work? It is often assumed that it did not, because, if for no other reason, there is supposedly no scientific evidence from World War I to prove it was effective. They were written by various authors, including the camouflage artists themselves. But among the documents in this new book is an account of postwar "laboratory experiments" at MIT that appear to confirm that-not only did
Making things look different Chris Sterling This anthology of articles published during and after World War I is a valuable collection about the "dazzle" painting of both merchant and naval ships to make them less visible to submarines. The process was based on the theory of visually breaking up a ship's silhouette to make it harder to track how fast the vessel was moving and in what direction it was s. This is an excellent reader of articles by camoufleurs and others about the Kevin J. Foster This is an excellent reader of articles by camoufleurs and others about the development of disruptive "dazzle" camouflage for ships. The essays compare different theories and practices of camouflage. Readers see how artists, architects, set designers, and scientists worked together, in parallel, and sometimes in conflict to provide visual miscues, protecting