Sunday, December 13, 2009

Foxing










From the Indiana University, Bloomington copy of Emile Zola's Edouard Manet (Paris: E. Dentu, 1867).

7 comments:

  1. to see it & read it this way - what an eye.

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  2. Rosaire--thanks!

    Aaron-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxing

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  3. for a completely different type of foxing, please see these diagrams made by humans in collaboration with foxes:
    http://www.socialfiction.org/?n=1787

    almost abstract comics!

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  4. Thank-you for the links and comments, all. I was having a hard time reading this one (at first, I thought that was because I lack French). Now I am mesmerized...

    Oh, and the shamanistic fox pattern link is also really interesting! Thanks for sharing that, Tim.

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  5. This is brilliant, but only if it is a comic. Is this intended to be a comic?? Or am I meant to read it??

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  6. Well, yeah, it's meant as a "comic," or at least as a record of some kind of visual sequence. The underlying subject adds something, I suppose, but no, you are not meant to read the words.

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