Book | Chapter
Anthropodology
man a-foot
pp. 84-101
Abstract
Slide showing detail from Pieter Breugel the Elder: The Fight between Carnival and Lent. A cripple pulls herself through the dirt, sliding along on a platelike sled, her useless legs bent up against the back. Each hand grasps artificial “feet” whose stick-legs give her the traction to pull. Her back is severely arched, head thrown back, her mouth opened in the effort and her agony. She is unkempt. Pictorially, she is “degraded” — as she literally is, i. e., “de-stepped.”
Publication details
Published in:
Baeyer Waltervon, Griffith Richard M. (1966) Conditio humana: Erwin W. Straus on his 75th birthday. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 84-101
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-85978-6_8
Full citation:
Griffith Richard M. (1966) „Anthropodology: man a-foot“, In: W. Baeyer & R. M. Griffith (eds.), Conditio humana, Dordrecht, Springer, 84–101.