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CAMOUFLAGE AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF WARFARE
2012
Overview
At the beginning of the twentieth century the pictorial conventions of the battle painting were challenged first by drab uniforms and then by camouflage. The look of war had changed, for tactical and strategic ends. Camouflage (schemes of disguise and deception first named as such during the First World War) was a technological response to developments in the range and accuracy of ordnance (longer-range small arms and the aerial direction of artillery). As is suggested by the cultural impact of the dazzle painting of military and merchant shipping (a making-strange, in Russian Formalist terminology, intended to impede the aiming of
