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Roland Penrose: Home Guard Manual of Camouflage

Roland Penrose: Home Guard Manual of Camouflage

Regular price £12.95 Sale

Lee Miller Archives, 2025, hardcover, 102 pages, 12.7 x 18.4 cm

In 1941, Roland Penrose became a game changer when The War Office published this Home Guard Manual. Penrose shows how to accomplish seemingly impossible visual deceptions: While Penrose, a keen naturalist, drew on influences in the natural world, his Surrealist passion for mimicry is apparent throughout the book. Patterns, textures, shading: all these artistic devices now took on serious military currency.