Shattered Faces
Laurence Hutson
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 81,000
Warnings:Â Graphic violence
Follow Anna Coleman Ladd into Europe during the Great War, establishing the Studio for Portrait Masks for the Red Cross in 1917, Paris. Understand her evolving technique of creating copper-plated masks to replicate the original faces of facially disfigured men from the trenches in France, with her involvement in the Parisian back culture of the period, and her personal transformation.
Shattered Faces covers a period from the American Expeditionary Forces’ entry into World War I in Europe in 1917 to the end of the War in Paris in 1918. The story of Anna Coleman Ladd and the development of the Studio for Portrait Masks, which helped facially disfigured soldiers returning from the trenches by creating copper-plated masks to conceal their injuries, allowing them to reintegrate into society without unnecessary attention drawn to their injuries; also, the cultural developments that impacted the period and Anna’s team of artists. The stories of how the War impacted these efforts, the development of the Studio, and the personal growth that Anna underwent during this time. Leaving the comfortable life she had in Boston, paying for her efforts out of personal funds, and leaving her daughters in America. The stark images she witnessed in France at the time, along with the struggles women faced in their efforts to gain acceptance.
A traditional artist with a knowledge of the processes that Anna Ladd utilized, and a fascination for the use of words to create. Major in Art, with Minor in English. Written short stories and several historical articles, retired, now researching the impact of women in history.
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