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- Title
The Role of Artists in Ship Camouflage During World War I.
- Authors
Behrens, Roy R.
- Abstract
Experiments in ship camouflage during World War I were necessitated by the inordinate success of German submarines (called "U-boats") in destroying Allied ships. Because it is impossible to make a ship invisible at sea, Norman Wilkinson, Everett L. Warner and other artists devised methods of course distortion in which high-contrast, unrelated shapes were painted on a ship's surface, thereby confusing the periscope view of the submarine gunner.
- Subjects
WORLD War I -- Camouflage; CAMOUFLAGE (Military science); WARSHIPS -- Camouflage; WAR artists; WILKINSON, Norman, 1878-1971; WARNER, Everett Longley, 1877-1963
- Publication
Leonardo, 1999, Vol 32, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0024-094X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/002409499553000