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Record Nr.

UNINA9911003578603321

Autore

Slobogin Christine

Titolo

Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper : How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester : , : University of Rochester Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-80543-704-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 pages)

Collana

Rochester Studies in Medical History Series

Disciplina

617.9/52

Soggetti

Medical Illustration - history

Plastic Surgery Procedures - history

War-Related Injuries - surgery

Facial Injuries - surgery

Archives - history

Medicine in the Arts - history

World War II

United Kingdom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Collecting Affect : Emotion, Empathy, and the Surgical Archive -- Narratives of the BAPRAS Archive -- Counternarratives of the BAPRAS Archive -- Dickie Orpen : Identity, Pedagogy, and Medico-Artistic Looking -- Plastic Humor : Dickie Orpen's Palliative and Queer Cartoons -- Percy Hennell : Color, Place, and Surgical Emotion -- "Something Useful in a National Sense" : Percy Hennell's Photography as Propaganda.

Sommario/riassunto

"Taking an interdisciplinary approach to medical history, this book shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional, and aesthetic parameters of reconstructive plastic surgery in Britain during the 20th century. Plastic surgery in twentieth-century Britain was a medical discipline with deep ties to art, artists, and art history. It was also a field still in the process of creating its reputation and its archives. Putting Plastic Surgery on



Paper examines these archives, focusing in particular on the works on paper held within these collections by two artists: Diana "Dickie" Orpen and Percy Hennell. The discipline of plastic surgery depended upon the drawings and photographs made by these and other medical illustrators to craft certain narratives about their field, their practitioners, and their surgical practice. In addition to telling an art history of plastic surgery during this period, Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper engages with the affective parameters of archival objects, and with what working as a historian involves when done within potentially traumatic spaces. Paying particular attention to the emotional dimensions and effects of this visual culture and the ways in which it is archived and framed by the discipline of plastic surgery--then and now---Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper explores not only what it meant to make art in a surgical space, but also what it means to study these affecting paper objects in the archive today. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND"--