CAMOUFLAGE STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART


As a concept, camouflage is one of the most active actions of any living creature for self-defense and attack. Although this action was taken from the animal kingdom, it has become a strategy that has been used in the military field in the two great wars that emerged in the modern era with the contribution of the artists. In the post-modern era, it has started to be used as a concept in the field of contemporary art in terms of social and psychological concealment of the individual. Contemporary art represents the post-modern era, which uses concepts as a tool based on an intellectual process. In this context, the study includes contemporary artists who consider camouflage as a hiding and concealing strategy, their works and conceptual approaches in their works. Numerous artists, who examined as a concept different from using of camouflage in contemporary art, have been identified. It is important to investigate, examine, and place on a conceptual basis emergent new way of expression in the relationship between contemporary art and camouflage. The research has been carried out with literature review and document analysis method, the definition of the camouflage style, types, intended purposes and development of in the historical process have been discussed, the approaches and the works of contemporary artists with a strategic attitude is aimed to be questioned and interpreted through a conceptual framework. In this research conducted in line with this main purpose, in the relationship between art and camouflage, which began at the beginning of the twentieth century and differentiated to the present day, it is seen that contemporary artists have transformed camouflage into concepts of concealment, play, incarnation, gender, identity and alienation.


Keywords


Contemporary art, Camouflage, Strategy, Concealment

Author : Metin UÇAR
Number of pages: 2579-2596
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.39391
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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