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Reconstructing the Body
Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War
Ana Carden-Coyne
360 pages
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49 b/w halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954646-6
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Hardback
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20 August 2009
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- The story of how people recovered from the First World War
- Explores how physical and cultural reconstruction were linked to aesthetic concepts of the body
- Investigates war and recovery in a variety of spheres, including the beauty industry, memorials, politics, plastic surgery, and visual culture
The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story. People also rebuilt their lives, their communities, and their bodies. From the ashes of war rose beauty, eroticism, and the promise of utopia.
Ana Carden-Coyne investigates the cultures of resilience and the institutions of reconstruction in Britain,
Australia, and the United States. Immersed in efforts to heal the consequences of violence and triumph over adversity, reconstruction inspired politicians, professionals, and individuals to transform themselves and their societies.
Bodies were not to remain locked away as tortured memories. Instead, they became the subjects of outspoken debate, the objects of rehabilitation, and commodities of desire in global industries. Governments, physicians, beauty and body therapists, monument designers and visual artists looked to classicism and modernism as the tools for rebuilding civilization and its citizens. What better response to loss of life, limb, and mind than a body reconstructed?Readership:
Students and scholars of the cultural history of war; those interested in art history and visual culture; researchers in medical history and disability studies.
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Ana Carden-Coyne, Co-Director, Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester
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Introduction
1: Reconstructing Civilization in Postwar Culture
2: Culture Shock: Trauma, Pleasure, and Visual Memory
3: Monumental Classicism: Healing the Western Body
4: The Sexual Reconstruction of Men
5: The 'Golden Age of Woman'
6: Performing the New Civilization
Conclusion: Healing and Forgetting
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