Thanks to their longtime obsession with mimicry and visual deception, the Surrealists had been peculiarly well suited to camouflage work, which became critical to WWII’s new era of aerial warfare.

Camouflage—at least in its present incarnation ... Yet young artists played a vital role in developing tech that helped win World War II, too. In the 1940s, ideas about visual perception ...

A former Italian prisoner of war has returned to Orkney to revisit the place he lived and worked for much of WW2. Gino Caprara, 93, made the pilgrimage both to see Orkney again and to express his ...