Table of Contents

1. Introduction by Jonathan Miller 2. Early Inspirations: The Animal World • Pattern to Conceal and Confuse • Military Display and Military Disguise 3. Dazzling the Enemy: The Threat from the Skies Disruptive Pattern • Picasso, Modernist Art and Camouflage • The Dazzle Ball of 1919 4. Developing Disguise: The First Camouflage- Printed Uniforms • Professor Schick’s SS Forest Patterns • Inflatable Tanks and Fake Oil Terminals • Camouflage and the Cambridge Zoologist 5. Camo Triumphant: Camouflage as Identity as well as Disguise • Tropical Wars, Tropical Patterns • Warhol and Panton, Art and Furniture • High-tech Textiles: the Future of Camouflage

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The fascinating history of camouflage – an interplay between modern military developments on the one hand, and the worlds of art, design and popular culture on the other

About the Author

Tim Newark is editor of Military Illustrated, the leading English-language military history and uniforms magazine

Reviews

'Stylish and extravagantly illustrated … excellent' - Time Out

'Fascinating … traces the often subversive story of this design classic' - The Gloss Magazine