Table of Contents

Preface
Roy R. Behrens
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part 1: the art community
1. Darwin
2. Sydney
3. Sydney experiments

Part 2: the science community
4. William Dakin
5. Animal camouflage

Part 3: the military context
6. Policy and status
7. Image
8. Conscience

Part 4: the field – New Guinea and Papua
9. Jungle
10. Goodenough Island

Part 5: the edge of modernism
11. Max Dupain
12. Frank Hinder

Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Camouflage Australia exposes the fraught disagreements between civilian and military personnel over camouflage's value in warfare.

About the Author

Ann Elias is an associate professor of visual arts at the University of Sydney.

Reviews

'Elias's cross-disciplinary approach of bringing together art, science
and psychology in the pursuit of disguise and concealment in the
military context is refreshing.'
*Australian Historical Studies*

'Camouflage Australia is an eloquent work. But Ann Elias gives us much more than a hidden history of artists, scientists and soldiers. She tells us about the contest of knowledge in modern Australia, and provides an insight into the contested domain of civil–military relations.'
*Journal of Sociology*