Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Military camouflage, World wars, Ships, Submarines, Art photography, Navies, Design, Artists models, Merchant vessels, Colors
Journal/Book/Conference Title Title
Leonardo
Volume
32
Issue
1
First Page
53
Last Page
59
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.
Department
Department of Art
Original Publication Date
1999
DOI of published version
10.1162/002409499553000
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Date Digital
2006
Copyright
©1999 The MIT Press
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Behrens, Roy R., "The Role of Artists in Ship Camouflage during World War I" (1999). Faculty Publications. 3.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/art_facpub/3
Comments
First published in Leonardo, v.32 n. 1 (1999), pp. 53-59, published by the MIT Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/002409499553000.