{"id":4426,"date":"2017-08-24T07:57:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2017-08-24T07:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:57:22","slug":"the-art-of-victo-ngai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4426","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Victo Ngai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Dazzle was meant to make the Germans think a ship was, for example,
turning toward the west when it was actually headed to the southeast. …”<\/em>
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\nLast week, I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em> with Chris Barton<\/a><\/strong> about Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion<\/em> (Millbrook\/Lerner, September 2017). <\/p>\n

That column includes one spread from the book. Today, I’m following up with some more art from illustrator Victo Ngai<\/a><\/strong>. This is her debut picture book. <\/p>\n


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“ONE OF THE SHIPS ON THIS PAGE IS PAINTED IN SNEAKY, STRIPY CAMOUFLAGE.
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“… And a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve lieutenant-commander named Norman Wilkinson had another suggestion. It was unlikely. It was improbably. It may have even seemed bonkers. His idea was to camouflage ships.”<\/em>
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DAZZLE SHIPS: WORLD WAR I AND THE ART OF CONFUSION. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Chris Barton. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Victo Ngai. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, Millbrook Press, Minneapolis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Dazzle was meant to make the Germans think a ship was, for example,turning toward the west when it was actually headed to the southeast. …”(Click to enlarge spread and see full text)   Last week, I chatted here at Kirkus with Chris Barton about Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion (Millbrook\/Lerner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}