The art of war

Kneebone, R.
The Lancet, 2014-11-08, Volúmen 384, Número 9955, Pages 1662-1663

The Royal College of Surgeons’ new exhibition, War, Art and Surgery , brings together two radically different yet complementary responses to war. Henry Tonks’ harrowing and highly personal images of soldiers treated by the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies during the First World War are counterbalanced by Julia Midgley’s contemporary emphasis on recovery and rehabilitation after conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq.