The exhibition explores how sculpture and medical science have expanded a grown over the years, originally starting in the first world war helping injured victims look and feel more like themselves.
During the First World War prosthetics technology rapidly advanced. As shattered soldiers became a familiar sight in public life after 1914, both artists and surgeons alike sought to remake what had been lost. Sculptors Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood worked directly with surgeons, creating facial masks for soldiers injured in the trenches.
The exhibition shows many examples of their work, their was a series of images that showed the process of them creating a half mask replacing soldiers eye socket, the would get photos of the solider to make the mask look as reality as possible.
This post evidences primary research, well done. It would be good to see more independent visits to exhibitions - linked to your chosen essay title. Also, again try and link posts back to your discipline of advertising - e.g. in this case the Paralympic ads which demonstrate different social (contexts) and attitudes towards prosthetics.
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