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Description: | image: The two halves of the work mirror each other. Each has a background of a lace 'grid' made up of tiny crosses. There
is an irregular shape, a block of dark colour, over this made up of squares of a hessian design. A long oval shape runs across the
horizontal of the work, lying as a narrow arch of dots in each half. The colours used in the two halves are also reversed with the left
half being black on brown, and the right half brown on black.
'In the book, "Somme", Lynne Macdonald writes "...the English company J & P Coates presented every officer with a
breast-plate and every man in the 6th Argyles with a heart-shaped mirror of polished steel to place in his breast-pocket as insurance
against German bullets". In the museum at Peronne I saw a primitive vest that was labelled "abdominal protection for a British soldier".
Small metal plates were chain linked together to from a flexible screen for the front of the body. The "armoured" vest was tailored at the
back with business suit pin-striped fabric. Wishful thinking.'
Text about Body Armour from artist's book 'History/Memory' IWM: ART 16745:
In the book Somme, Lynne Macdonald writes, `... the English company J & P Coates presented every officer with a breast-
plate and every man in the 6th Argylls with a heart-shaped mirror of polished steel to place in his breast-pocket as insurance against
German bullets.' In the museum at Peronne I saw a primitive vest that was labelled `Abdominal protection for a British soldier'. Small
metal plates were chain linked together to form a flexible screen for the front of the body. The `armoured' vest was tailored at the back
with business suit pin-striped fabric.
Wishful thinking. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | artist's response | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Arnold, Raymond | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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