Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Khaki to khaki (dust to dust): the ubiquity of camouflage in human experience by Roy R. Behrens
2. Camouflage and mimesis: deception, evolutionary biology and imitation by Bernd Hüppauf
3. Zoos and camouflage by Ann Elias
4. Australian stick and leaf insects (Insecta, Phasmida): camouflage and natural history by Paul D. Brock and Jack W. Hasenpusch
5. Mimicking the masters: a new age for camouflage design by Jonnie Morris
6. The origin of art: camouflage, anti-camouflage and de-camouflage in the appropriation art of Imants Tillers by Ian McLean
7. The camouflage effect by Pamela Hansford
8. Light leak by Tanya Peterson
9. From Ghillie suit to glittering kowhaiwhai: contemporary New Zealand artists deploy the camouflage aesthetic by Linda Tyler
10. Making visible, changing sides: the contradictory use of camouflage by artists Xing Junqin and Ian Howard by Ian Howard and Brigitta Olubas
11. Interventions in seeing: surveillance, camouflage and the Cold War camera by Donna West Brett
12. Unmasking militarism: hegemony, naturalisation, camouflage by Ben Wadham and Amy Hamilton
13. Of mimicry and hipsters by Hsuan Hsu
14. Camouflage/fashion/performance: a case study of Leigh Bowery by Jacqueline Millner
15. Hiding in the cosmos by Nikos Papastergiadis

Afterword: shifting groundRoss Gibson
About the contributors
Index

Promotional Information

Camouflage Cultures offers a new perspective on camouflage and the roles that physical, artistic and social camouflage play in modern life.

About the Author

Ann Elias is an associate professor of critical studies at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney.

Ross Harley is a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of New South Wales.

Nicholas Tsoutas is Zelda Stedman Lecturer in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts. He was a director of four major art centres in Australia: Artspace, the Institute of Modern Art, the Performance Space and the Casula Powerhouse.

Reviews

‘Camouflage Cultures is a variously stimulating collection, illustrating aspects of critical theory through the extension of camouflage as metaphor into cross- and interdisciplinary areas of historical and current practice and commentary in the arts and sciences.’
*Leonardo*