title: [The disfigured men represented by the great painters (O. Dix - G. Grosz - R. Freida.) Disfiguration in the history of art].
abstract: Sophie Delaporte's book, Philippe Paillard's, Chantal Roussels's novels and Dupeyron's movie underline the difficulties of repairing physical and moral sufferings of the "disfigured men" wounded during the Great War. Beside medical and technical didactic aimed drawings the exhibition of wasted, mutilated or out of repair faces remains little known. In France, Germany or Great Britain there are many artists who took part in war. Among the artists the French painter Raphael Freida and some German expressionists like Otto Dix, Max Beckmann or George Grosz are the most famous. Their works are often confidential, set apart in the museums and showed in rare exhibitions in Great Britain and the United States of America. The sight of ruined faces inspired such horror that the artists depicted it only exceptionally and with discretion, before 1914. Without doubt it is the fear of touching the privacy of the face which is a part of the human identity. There are no "disfigured men" in the countless religious paintings of torture, neither in the Disasters of Warfrom painters or engravers like Goya or Jacques Callot.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon I. 8, av. Rockefeller, 69008 Lyon.
authors.forename: Louis-Paul
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Méroc
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frapat
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chauvin
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rousset
mesh_terms: D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history*; D047828:World War I