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Les gueules cassées représentées par de grands peintres (O. Dix - G. Grosz - R. Freida): La défiguration en histoire de l'art (2007)

Fischer, Louis-Paul (Author)
Méroc, Nicolas (Author)
Frapat, Jean (Author)
Chauvin, Frédéric (Author)
Rousset, Chantal (Author)

Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Volume: 41
Pages: 337--346

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World War I Visual representation; visual communication Fine arts Painters and painting Medicine and art 20th century, early Europe

Sophie Delaporte's book, Philippe Paillard's, Chantal Roussels's novels and Dupeyron's movie underline the difficulties of repairing physical and moral sufferings of the "disfigured men" wounded during the Great War. Beside medical and technical didactic aimed drawings the exhibition of wasted, mutilated or out of repair faces remains little known. In France, Germany or Great Britain there are many artists who took part in war. Among the artists the French painter Raphael Freida and some German expressionists like Otto Dix, Max Beckmann or George Grosz are the most famous. Their works are often confidential, set apart in the museums and showed in rare exhibitions in Great Britain and the United States of America. The sight of ruined faces inspired such horror that the artists depicted it only exceptionally and with discretion, before 1914. Without doubt it is the fear of touching the privacy of the face which is a part of the human identity. There are no "disfigured men" in the countless religious paintings of torture, neither in the Disasters of Warfrom painters or engravers like Goya or Jacques Callot.

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Description On the practice of repairing disfigured faces of individuals wounded in the war, and on those painters who depicted disfigurations.

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