>
>I'd add that the french army did asked to modern painters, amongst whom
>happened to be cubists painters, like Andr� Mare, to work on the camouflage
>of the tanks, and to conceive them in the "camouflage section" of the
>Artillery corp as soon as the very beginning of 1915.
>On this subject, see the "camouflages" exhibition of 1997 in the Historial
>de la Grande Guerre of Peronne.
>Avant-garde IS a military term, but cubists were modern painters... not
>exactly the same world, isn't it?.
>Bertrand.
>
>
In "Bluebeard" by kirt Vonagunt, The main character, Raboo Karabekien (or
there abouts) was in a platoon of artists that worked to camouflage tanks
and trucks and such. Same idea.
disco
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