Saving Face: Art, Medicine, and the Wounded Soldiers of WWI | Nooks & Crannies of History

Описание: In this episode, join Brucemore public historian Megan Clevenger and explore the devastating impact that traumatic facial mutilation had on the lives of soldiers who sustained this type of injury during the First World War. You will be introduced to a historic heroine, American sculptor, Anna Coleman Ladd. Using her skills as an artist, she was one of many people who worked with the “men with broken faces” and tried to help them regain what they lost during the war.


Sources
Archives
American National Red Cross Photograph Collection – Prints and Photographs Division – The Library of Congress
Anna Coleman Ladd Papers 1881-1950 – Archives of American Art – Smithsonian Institute. Some correspondences translated from French to English by Stephanie L. Toole.

Primary
Plastic Surgery of the Face, based on Selected Cases of War Injuries of the Face including Burns, Harold Gillies
“Masks for Facial Wounds” in The Lancet, Francis Derwent Wood
“Saving Face: Art, Medicine, and Expectations of the Mutilated Face,” Megan Clevenger, Colorado State University 2019 – unpublished paper.

Secondary
Article: https://www.forcesnews.com/feature/ti...
Article: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-s....
Article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...
Webpage: https://www.britannica.com/event/Worl...
Webpage: https://www.loc.gov/collections/stars...
Webpage: https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/first-w....
Webpage: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices...
Webpage: https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/to-arms...
Podcast: https://www.npr.org/2007/02/24/755632...
Webpage: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/women-in...
Article: https://www.npr.org/2014/09/25/351441....
Book: The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, Lindsey Fitzharris


Visuals
-National Archives: archives.gov
-Prelinger Archives: prelinger.com
-Imperial War Museum: iwm.org.uk
-Library of Congress: loc.gov
-Internet archive: archive.org
-Smithsonian: si.edu

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:53 - Viewer warning
02:13 - What made WWI so different from wars before it
04:05 - Contributions to facial disfigurement casualties
06:27 - Early facial reconstruction surgery
07:28 - Returning home
08:51 - Introducing Anna Coleman Ladd
09:35 - Portrait masks
10:22 - The process of making a portrait mask
11:56 - Anna after the war
13:11 - Wearing the portrait masks at home
13:53 - Not a perfect solution
15:23 - One more story
16:24 - Thank you

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