BeDazzled

Liverpool Open Eye Photography Gallery

ccovert — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:03:15 +0000

The gallery’s new space is opening tomorrow. The facade of the gallery has a temporary installation of work by S Mark Gubb, a Cardiff based artist. Gubb’s installation is called Good Sailing and incorporates dazzle camouflage.

New RISD Dazzle website address

ccovert — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:01:18 +0000

The RISD Dazzle website has changed. It is now: dazzle.risd.edu.

Dazzle prints for sale

ccovert — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:38:06 +0000

We are offering ten of our dazzle plans as high quality archival prints. They are available online, through risd|works (under “Fine Art”). International orders please call risd|works at 401-277-4949.

The library plans to release an edition of ten plans (five sets of starboard and port sides) annually. This year’s edition is selections from Type 1 and Type 2 representing Tankers and Standard Steel ships. Proceeds benefit the Fleet Library at RISD’s special collections and exhibitions. The dazzle collection is housed in special collections and the funds raised will help preserve this collection.

The prints are the size of the original plans (10 or 14 by 34). All of the Type 2s are 14 inches high and all of the Type 1s are 10 inches high.

Exhibit Extended

ccovert — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:26:09 +0000

Update: The first floor of the exhibit (including history of camouflage and dazzle plans and photos) will be opened until April 9, 2009.

Maurice L Freedman

ccovert — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:49:25 +0000

Maurice L Freedman, RISD Alumnus, was the district camoufleur in Florida during World War I. After the war he attended RISD and donated the dazzle plans and photos. He was born in New York in 1898 and died in Massachusetts in 1983. We don’t know much about Maurice. Hoping someone knows more.

Posters

ccovert — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:28:59 +0000

We have sold out of posters. We hope to be offering more in September 2009 during RISD by Design Weekend. If you would like to be notified when they will be available please email us.

Postcards

ccovert — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:23:18 +0000

We have the above avaliable images for sale as postcards. They cost 50 cents a piece. For more information please contact us at RISD Library.

RISD’s new dazzle webpage

ccovert — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:01:47 +0000

http://www.risd.edu/dazzle

Modern Dazzle

ccovert — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:22:46 +0000

Greek construction tycoon Dakis Joannou had Jeff Koons paint his yacht Guilty. Koons’ inspiration was dazzle camouflage (ARTnews November 2008, p. 60). Images

Exhibit and Symposium

ccovert — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:03:09 +0000

The “Bedazzled” Exhibit and the “Artists at War: Exploring the Connections Between Art and Camouflage” Symposium will examine the questions surrounding the relationship of art and camouflage.

This free and open to the public exhibit will be at:

The Fleet Library at RISD, January 26-March 29, 2009 during library hours (Monday-Friday 8:30am-7pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, and Sunday noon-7pm).

The symposium will be in:

The Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium in RISD’s Chace Center and is also free and open to the public on February 14, 2009 from 2-4 pm.

The exhibit will focus on three areas: what is camouflage?; dazzle camouflage; and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) student work involving camouflage.

The symposium will be comprised of four talks:

Peter Harrington, Curator of Brown’s Military Collection, will explore the relationship of art and camouflage throughout history.

Daniel Harkett, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History of Visual Art and Culture at RISD, will discuss the art movements of World War I with an emphasis on British Modernism and will examine the question, did camouflage influence art or did art influence camouflage?

Roy Behrens, RISD alumni and a professor of Graphic Design at University of Northern Iowa, will discuss the life of Everett Longley Warner, an artist and camoufleur during World War I and II, and what it was like to be a camoufleur.

Claudia Covert, Readers Services Librarian at the Fleet Library @ RISD, will bring to light RISD’s dazzle camouflage collection and share the stories her research has revealed and what mysteries remain to be solved.