Marjorie Gehrhardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Gehrhardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gehrhardt |
| SIGNATURE | GEHRHARDT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8880-4286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Surviving the Second World War: Resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association
Veterans’ organisations boomed in the wake of the First World War, many of their members joined together by a shared experience but also the desire to make this conflict the war to end all wars. Yet only two decades later, a new conflict started. This article examines how one of the best-known and wealthiest organisations, the Union des Blessés de la Face – Association des Gueules Cassées [Union of the Facially Wounded – ‘Broken Mugs’’ Associatio…
La Greffe Générale: The voice of French facially injured soldiers
Like the combatants on the frontline, the wounded soldiers of the First World War wrote and published newspapers during the sometimes lengthy periods of time they spent in hospital. La Greffe Générale is the journal written by and for facially injured combatants treated at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris. Throughout the eight issues released between December 1917 and July 1918, the voices of these men can be heard. While the surgeons’…
Frederick Coates: First World War ‘facial architect’
The role of artists in the First World War is often understood only in terms of their artistic response to the conflict in paint, music, or sculpture. In fact, artists’ contributions were also engaged at an applied level, for example in the areas of propaganda, camouflage, and map-making. Beyond this, a small number participated in repairing the damage caused by the conflict. Frederick Coates, a British-born sculptor who emigrated to Canada in 19…
Introduction: The Legacy of the Gueules Cassées : From Surgery to Art
The mutilated face of soldiers injured during the Great War is an emblem not only of a new era in warfare but also of a period of unprecedented experimentation and innovation in medical practice and the arts. In this special issue, we consider two interrelated issues: (1) The reciprocal influence of art and medicine. In particular, the debt to artistic practices and practitioners of the forms of surgery pioneered during WWI (with particular refer…
The Men with Broken Faces: «Gueules Cassées» of the First World War
Henriette Remi, Hommes sans visage
Hommes sans visage is a timely new edition of an autobiographical work by First World War hospital volunteer Henriette Rémi. Thanks to an afterword by historian Stéphane Garcia, this second edition sheds a new light on the author's experience of caring for facially injured soldiers during the Great War. Both her testimony and Garcia's subsequent discussion address questions pertaining to identity: Rémi's, but also the disfigured men's. Who was sh…
Gueules Cassées: The Men Behind the Masks
Facially wounded soldiers of the First World War were, despite progress in plastic surgery, a particularly uncomfortable presence in war and post-war societies. Their self-perception and relationships with others are indicative of political, social, and emotional issues. Their treatment was not on a par with that of other veterans. In some instances, masks and attachments were used to cover the damaged features. They protected both the victim and…
Frederick Coates: First World War ‘facial architect’
The role of artists in the First World War is often understood only in terms of their artistic response to the conflict in paint, music, or sculpture. In fact, artists’ contributions were also engaged at an applied level, for example in the areas of propaganda, camouflage, and map-making. Beyond this, a small number participated in repairing the damage caused by the conflict. Frederick Coates, a British-born sculptor who emigrated to Canada in 19…
Gueules Cassées: The Men Behind the Masks
Facially wounded soldiers of the First World War were, despite progress in plastic surgery, a particularly uncomfortable presence in war and post-war societies. Their self-perception and relationships with others are indicative of political, social, and emotional issues. Their treatment was not on a par with that of other veterans. In some instances, masks and attachments were used to cover the damaged features. They protected both the victim and…
La Greffe Générale: The voice of French facially injured soldiers
Like the combatants on the frontline, the wounded soldiers of the First World War wrote and published newspapers during the sometimes lengthy periods of time they spent in hospital. La Greffe Générale is the journal written by and for facially injured combatants treated at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris. Throughout the eight issues released between December 1917 and July 1918, the voices of these men can be heard. While the surgeons’…
Gueules Cassées: The Men Behind the Masks
Facially wounded soldiers of the First World War were, despite progress in plastic surgery, a particularly uncomfortable presence in war and post-war societies. Their self-perception and relationships with others are indicative of political, social, and emotional issues. Their treatment was not on a par with that of other veterans. In some instances, masks and attachments were used to cover the damaged features. They protected both the victim and…
Henriette Remi, Hommes sans visage
Hommes sans visage is a timely new edition of an autobiographical work by First World War hospital volunteer Henriette Rémi. Thanks to an afterword by historian Stéphane Garcia, this second edition sheds a new light on the author's experience of caring for facially injured soldiers during the Great War. Both her testimony and Garcia's subsequent discussion address questions pertaining to identity: Rémi's, but also the disfigured men's. Who was sh…
The Men with Broken Faces: «Gueules Cassées» of the First World War
Frederick Coates: First World War ‘facial architect’
The role of artists in the First World War is often understood only in terms of their artistic response to the conflict in paint, music, or sculpture. In fact, artists’ contributions were also engaged at an applied level, for example in the areas of propaganda, camouflage, and map-making. Beyond this, a small number participated in repairing the damage caused by the conflict. Frederick Coates, a British-born sculptor who emigrated to Canada in 19…
Introduction: The Legacy of the Gueules Cassées : From Surgery to Art
The mutilated face of soldiers injured during the Great War is an emblem not only of a new era in warfare but also of a period of unprecedented experimentation and innovation in medical practice and the arts. In this special issue, we consider two interrelated issues: (1) The reciprocal influence of art and medicine. In particular, the debt to artistic practices and practitioners of the forms of surgery pioneered during WWI (with particular refer…
La Greffe Générale: The voice of French facially injured soldiers
Like the combatants on the frontline, the wounded soldiers of the First World War wrote and published newspapers during the sometimes lengthy periods of time they spent in hospital. La Greffe Générale is the journal written by and for facially injured combatants treated at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris. Throughout the eight issues released between December 1917 and July 1918, the voices of these men can be heard. While the surgeons’…
Surviving the Second World War: Resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association
Veterans’ organisations boomed in the wake of the First World War, many of their members joined together by a shared experience but also the desire to make this conflict the war to end all wars. Yet only two decades later, a new conflict started. This article examines how one of the best-known and wealthiest organisations, the Union des Blessés de la Face – Association des Gueules Cassées [Union of the Facially Wounded – ‘Broken Mugs’’ Associatio…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Face (sociological concept (4 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · World War II (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)