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Obscure object of desire | 16 August 2018

Alan Krell examines the foot as object of desire, empowering symbol of freedom and vehicle of the comic and the absurd

  • The Mummy’s Foot and the Big Toe: Feet and Imaginative Promise

    Alan Krell

    Reaktion Books, pp. 192

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