War, Art and Surgery

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The history of surgery | Suffering for Their Art; A new exhibition compares depictions of military surgery now and 100 years ago. Economist, Nov 1, 2014
www.economist.com/news/books-and ... years-ago-suffering

Note:
(a) This is an exhibition review on
War, Art and Surgery. Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgery, Oct 14, 2014 to Feb 15, 2015.
www.medicalmuseums.org/index.php ... War-Art-and-Surgery
(“Visitors will have the rare opportunity to explore the relationship between war and surgery, past and present. With unprecedented access to military facilities, the artist Julia Midgley has created over 150 pieces of reportage artwork representing military surgeons in training and recently wounded soldiers on their road to recovery. Julia's work will be exhibited alongside all 72 of the College's striking pastels of wounded servicemen by surgeon-artist Henry Tonks from 1916-1918”)
(b) Henry Tonks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tonks
(1862-1937)
(c) Royal College of Surgeons of England
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Surgeons_of_England
(in London; fourteenth century to date; section 4 Hunterian Museum)
(d) “below, strikingly similar though tinted in the blues and greens of the modern operating theatre, is ‘Hands, hands, hands,’ by Julia Midgley, a contemporary artist”
(i) What's on. The DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery (Aykley Heads, Durham), April - September 2014
content.durham.gov.uk/PDFRepository/DurhamArtGalleryApril-Sept2014.pdf
(in the left lower corner of the cover (page 1) is “Front cover image: Julia Midgley, Hands, Hands, Hands, pencil, wash, acrylic ink”)
(ii) DLI Museum = Durham Light Infantry Museum

(e) “The image [‘The Birth of Plastic Surgery’] depicts the operating theatre of Harold Gillies, the pioneer of facial reconstructive surgery. The two first met at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot, where Gillies was developing the techniques that laid the foundation for modern surgeons’ ability to rebuild the human face, using as his subjects the young men who had been horribly disfigured in the trenches.”
(i) Harold Gillies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gillies
(1882-1960; widely considered the father of plastic surgery)
(ii) Cambridge Military Hospital
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Military_Hospital
(1779-1996; named after Prince George, [2nd] Duke of Cambridge)