Sunday, January 31, 2010

Le Corbusier as Camoufleur

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First, one of our favorite passages from Peter DeVries , The Tunnel of Love (NY: Penguin, 1982)— I imagined myself asking her whether she...

Architectural Camouflage Unit

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Since August 2009, there has been an on-going course called Camouflage: AA Intermediate Unit 6 at the Architectural Association School of A...

Dali: Submarines and Sardines

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From Salvador Dali , "Total Camouflage for Total War" in Esquire Vol 18 No 2 (August), 1942— Some young sardines are making the...

Martha Banta on Protective Disguise

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From Martha Banta , Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History (NY: Columbia University Press, 1987), pp. 221-222— By th...

Day-Glo Camouflage

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From Paola Antonelli , Safe: Design Takes on Risk (NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2005), p. 42— In 2004 a group protesting against fox hunting...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Ann Elias on Max Dupain

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Max Dupain (1911-1992) was a Modern-era Australian photographer who—along with zoologist William Dakin and other scientists, artists and d...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Wildlife Camouflage

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Given that protective coloration in nature and military camouflage make use of the same perceptual tendencies, it may come as no surprise t...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Figure-Ground in Nature

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In Diana Donald and Jane Munro, eds., Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven CT: Yale University Pre...

Art and Camouflage in Spain

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I have just seen the catalog for Camuflajes , a major exhibition of camouflage-related art that premiered last fall at La Casa Encendida in ...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Dazzle Camouflage at Cincinnati

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An original exhibition titled SEAGOING EASTER EGGS: Artists' Contributions to Dazzle Ship Camouflage will open soon at the Art Academy ...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Caligari's Camouflage

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From Steen Eiler Rasmussen , Experiencing Architecture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1964), p. 94— For most people the Cubist camouflage [of WW...

Camouflaged Tweens

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From JoAnn Deak , Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters (NY: Hyperion, 2002), p. 99— [Preadolescent girls, call...

Charlie Chaplin's Camouflage

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There is a six-minute segment in a Charlie Chaplin film that pokes fun of the trickery of  WWI American camouflage artists in France. The f...
Friday, January 1, 2010

Camouflage Artist | C. Allan Gilbert

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In his own lifetime, C. Allan Gilbert (1873-1929) was a widely published American illustrator, as well as an early contributor to animated ...

Camouflage Poem | Paul Myron

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"Camouflage and Camoufleur" in P.W. Linebarger (Paul Myron, pseud), Bugle Rhymes from France (Chicago: Mid-Nation Publishers, 191...

Henrietta Goodden on British Camouflage

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Henrietta Goodden, Camouflage and Art: Design for Deception in World War 2 . London: Unicorn Press, 2007. Hardcover, 120 illustrations, colo...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Camouflage at Chicago CAA

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This year's annual conference of the College Art Association will be held in Chicago. Among the scheduled sessions is Art after Camoufla...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Ghost Army Camouflage

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Some years ago, artist Dennis Bayuzick, a friend who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, sent me the complete set of fifty US p...

Camouflage Poem | Wilcox

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One of a number of popular poems that were first published during World War I, this one by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox (c1919)— Cam...

Your Head Is Where Your Stern Is

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During World War I, when it was first proposed that British ships should not be inconspicuous in appearance but should instead be covered in...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Camouflage Artist | Richard Meryman

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From Richard S. Meryman, Jr., " Richard Sumner Meryman—For the Love of Painting " at the Monadnock Art website— In 1916, Wig [R...

Comedy as Camouflage

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Rodney Dangerfield , quoted in Joe Garner, Made You Laugh (Andrews McMeel, 2004), p. 72— Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

Brute Camouflage

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From George Steiner , After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (NY: Oxford University Press, 1975)— At every level, from brute ca...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Camouflage at MIT

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From "Camouflage Apparatus at MIT" in Technology Review . Vol XXI (1919), p. 321— On the second floor of Building One [at MIT], ...

Rudolf Arnheim's Cat

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Gestalt psychologist Rudolf Arnheim in Parables of Sun Light (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), p. 91— Our black cat lay o...

Gertrude Stein on Figure-Ground

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Gertrude Stein , in a letter to Carl Van Vechten in late August 1923, as published in Edward Burns, ed., The Letters of Gertrude Stein and ...