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Reconstructing the Body - Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,082
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Reconstructing the Body - Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War (Hardcover, New): Ana Carden-Coyne

Reconstructing the Body - Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War (Hardcover, New)

Ana Carden-Coyne

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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?

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2009
First published: October 2009
Authors: Ana Carden-Coyne
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954646-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Classicism > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Modernist design & Bauhaus
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War
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LSN: 0-19-954646-0
Barcode: 9780199546466

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