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  1. One Sculptor's Answer To WWI Wounds - It was World War I, and soldiers were coming home from the battlefield

    by , 10-26-2014 at 03:53 AM


    Plaster casts taken from soldiers' mutilated faces (top row), new sculpted faces (bottom row), and final masks (on the table) sit in the studio of Anna Coleman Ladd in 1918.

    Sometimes art can change how people see the world. But Anna Coleman Ladd made art that changed how the world saw people.

    It was World War I, and soldiers ...
  2. A Sea Of Ceramic Poppies Honors Britain's WWI Dead

    by , 10-02-2014 at 12:27 PM


    This installation at the Tower of London will ultimately feature 888,246 ceramic poppies, honoring the soldiers from Britain and the British colonies who died in World War I.

    How do you memorialize an event that happened 100 years ago? Almost nobody is alive who witnessed the start of World War I. In England, at the Tower of London, an unusual ...