Camouflage research in the arts, sciences and warfare: a State of the Art

Description

An event by the Cultures of Camouflage and Mimicry among Human and non-Human Animals research network.

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Event organised with Cambridge Visual Culture and the Fitzwilliam Museum, in which we will have four talks giving a state of the art of research on camouflage and mimicry:

• James Herbert-Read (Department of Zoology, Cambridge) ‘The adaptive value of camouflage’
• Lorenzo Bartalesi (Scuola Normale Pisa) ‘Camouflage and aesthetics’
• Bram Van Oostveldt (Ghent University) ‘Camouflage in acting’
• Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge) ‘Honest dissimulation, mimesis and make-up in painting’

For enquiries please contact the Research Networks Programme Manager.