A french soldier wearing a mask made by Anna Coleman Ladd, 1918 (via Library of Congress) |
Masks showing different stages of Anna Coleman Ladd's sculpting, 1918 (via Library of Congress) |
Any
enduring romanticism for war was obliterated by the industrialized
brutality of World War I, from which legions of soldiers returned
disfigured by facial injuries.
One
artist, Anna Coleman Ladd, turned her neoclassical training into a
tool for sculpting new faces for the defaced. (Allison Meier, in Hyperallergic )