Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• White, Eric B

Titel

Dazzling Technologies: Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War

Ist Teil von

• Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic, 2020, p.28

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the First World War, battlefields became zones of technological experimentation. The innovations that engineers developed to address the reality of total war helped armed forces produce carnage on previously unimaginable scales. However, those inventions also influenced and derived from technological developments across a wide variety of disciplines, which shaped everyday life and conceptions of modernity. The introduction of ‘dazzle camouflage’ by the British Admiralty in October 1917 marked one such invention. Devised by the British painter and naval officer Norman Wilkinson, and implemented by teams of artists, military personnel and at least one member of the London Vorticist movement,