Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and camouflage Peter Forbes
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Winner of the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing.
Dazzled and Deceived tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the ian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes’s cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century.
As Dazzled and Deceived unravels the concept of mimicry, Forbes introduces colourful stories and a dazzling cast of characters – Roosevelt, Picasso, Nabokov, Churchill, and Darwin himself, to name a few – whom its mystery influenced and enthralled. Illuminating and lively, Dazzled and Deceived sheds new light on the greatest quest to understand the processes of life at its deepest level.
"Forbes … sees with lovely clarity that nature, like art, is a bricoleur, a tinkerer, and that the thrill of it all is not in a stately grand design … but in life’s multiple choices, chances and smallscale experiments so many possibilities." - Veronica Horwell, The Guardian
"Forbes tells brilliantly this exciting and colourful story with good anecdotes, bizarre characters and intriguing evidence." - Tim Newark, The Financial Times
"The natural armoury of deceptions as depicted in Dazzled and Deceived is astounding, and the history of research into the phenomenon is just as surprising. Starting in the 1850s in the rainforest, Forbes presents an authoritative account of research into mimicry and brings it bang up to date." - Gail Vines, New Scientist
About the Author
Peter Forbes is a science writer with a special interest in the relationship between art and science. The Gecko’s Foot, a book on the new science of bio-inspired materials, was published by Fourth Estate in 2005 and was long-listed for the Royal Society Prize. Nanoscience Giants of the Infinitesimal, with Tom Grimsey, was published by Papadakis in April 2014.
Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and camouflage Peter Forbes
This book really helped me in my research and was a great source of information.The book came quickly and was very fairly priced. It will most certainly remain in
my collection.
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Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and camouflage Peter Forbes Reviews
DAZZLED AND DECEIVED MIMICRY AND CAMOUFLAGE
PETER FORBES
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2009
HARDCOVER, $[...], 304 PAGES, COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS
Generally the concept of camouflage implies that an individual (a soldier) or an object (a tank) appears at a precise point of time (the fight) altered to such anextent-posing himself as something quite different (a landscape, a forest)-that he or it in this context of appearing isn't recognizable in his/its being as the authentic other (the threatening) or keeps a low profile. First of all, this precise point of time is given in an unusual situation, and for this reason camouflage from the trompe-l'oeil, the optical illusion produced in the 19th Century by a certain painting technique, from the military history in the Second World War and from the observation of nature. It's revealing that camouflage is emerging with a new optical paradigm in the First World War (trenches, air reconnaissance, submarine war) that makes necessary new forms of dissimulation and also changes with the technologies up to the modern day Stealth bombers that are nearly invisible to today's radar. In the difference to the forms of mimicry to be found at plants and animals, man is able to mislead not only by disguising but also by language like an agent of the U.S. Secret Service. The term "camouflage" is also covering situations in which politicians present things in a distorted way, or in which managers gloss over their balance sheets. Forged objects or documents like passports or visas do certainly belong to the standard repertoire of dissimulation but they are assigned to the methods of forgery and include a complex procedure going beyond optical effects. In the Nazi-era, the adaptation of the Nazi style layout helped Communist and Libertarian underground journals to find some circulation. The animal kingdom provides examples of all the essential principles of camouflage the chameleon, whose colors change to merge with its setting; the zebra, whose vivid stripes disrupt its outline and make it more difficult for predators to sight from a distance; and the stick insect that pretends to be what it's not. Creativity in the art of disguise was spurred in World War I by the threats of aerial reconnaissance and long-range enemy fire. Aircraft and ships were painted with lozenge and zigzag patterns to make them more difficult to target. Artists were involved in creating these patterns, and were influenced in turn by the extraordinary painted vessels, said to be like floating cubist paintings. In 1919, the Chelsea Arts Club of London, inspired by wartime camouflage patterns, staged the Dazzle Ball, the first known example of camouflage influencing popular culture. Since then, artists from Pablo Picasso to Andy Warhol to Bridget Riley have explored the themes and extremes of camouflage and optical illusion, while camouflage patterns in clothes and accessories have filtered from the street to high fashion and back again. Uniforms made from camouflage-printed textiles were first developed before World War II, and teams of artists, designers, and scientists worked together to create ever more sophisticated modes of camouflage and disguise. Today's high-tech research on textiles that are resistant to infrared and thermal detection shows a new direction in the future of camouflage. While there are far more technical books on the subject, which are crammed with military jargon, DAZZLED AND DECEIVED MIMICRY AND CAMOUFLAGE is a book that quickly covers the subject, and highlights the beauty of camouflage.
Lt. Colonel Robert A. Lynn, Florida Guard
Orlando, Florida
This book really helped me in my research and was a great source of information.
The book came quickly and was very fairly priced. It will most certainly remain in
my collection.
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