It would be safe to say that everything women wore before the Great War ceased to be acceptable and that after the war all that was left as useful models for the future was men’s clothing. It is one of the ironies of women’s fashions and the redesigning of the modern...
Norman Wilkinson was British, an artist, and had just returned from submarine patrol during the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, where he realized that the British ships, painted black, made the perfect silhouette and the perfect target for a lurking U-boat. He had the...
Based upon the knowledge of how the animal kingdom disguised itself to blend into a hostile environment, modern camouflage, still used today, allows the soldier to disappear and blend into the landscape. At sea, however, the issue of camouflage presented a very...
According to Romy Golan, writing of the avant-garde artists who served on the battlefield in Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars: “Some, like Dunoyer de Segonzac and Hebin, were drafted into the new camouflage sections; although...
If one accepts the premise that the most interesting art created during and in response to the Great War was made by British artists and that the most powerful art created after and in response to the Great War was done in Germany, then the conclusion is that over...
When the Great War began in August of 1914, European armies had not gone to war on the continent since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. For four decades, the Germans grew stronger and the French thought of revenge and watched their former foe to the north warily. The...
