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Behind the Mask: World War I, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution
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David Lubin, author and Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, will present "Behind the Mask: World War I, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution" at 7 p.m. on April 22, in room 3100 of Torgersen Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.
Lubin's talk deals with soldiers in World War I who suffered facial wounds from sniper fire and shrapnel. In previous wars, many would have died, but advances in medical care allowed them to live. However, when the war ended they returned home with disfigured faces.
He will discuss plastic surgeons who attempted to restore the soldiers' faces, sculptors who fashioned prosthetic masks, antiwar activists who used the wounded to shock the public, and entrepreneurs who capitalized on a postwar cult of physical beauty that arose in reaction to wartime ugliness.
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