The Mummy’s Foot and the Big Toe
Feet and Imaginative Promise
Distributed for Reaktion Books
192 pages
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25 color plates, 35 halftones
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4 3/4 x 8
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© 2018
Review Quotes
Spectator
"A feast for foot fetishists. Krell examines the foot as object of desire, empowering symbol of freedom, and vehicle of the comic and the absurd. . . . Krell has an eye for the odd, certainly, and there are some fascinating illustrations. And if nothing else, not many authors would be able to get Zola Budd, Mary Magdalene and Uma Thurman into the same book."
Observer (Sydney)
"There is really no other way to put it, but this is a very strange book, just as feet can be very strange things. . . . This book delves into the deeper world of feet. . . . Krell seeks to understand the reactions of writers, photographers, artists and normal people to feet through history. . . . It is an arcane and sometimes circuitous journey across time, one which reveals some interesting things about our soles and our souls."
Richard Shiff, University of Texas at Austin
“Krell’s observations and commentary are worthy of the array of literature and art he discusses—creative, imaginative, incisive. He picks up where notables such as Théophile Gautier, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin left off, exploring the cultural implications of what we do about feet: from fetishizing them, to binding them, to racing with them shoeless, to perceiving their nakedness as innocence.”
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