Fauna Skins
Bocklin, Arnold. Painting, Faun, Einer, Amsel. 1863.
Gerome, Jean. Painting, The Pelt Merchant of Cairo. 1869.
Delacroix Eugene. Painting, Arab Saddling His Horse. 1855.
Dali, Salvador. Painting, Burning Giraffe. 1938. http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/collection/images/weaning_large.jpg
DeMeyer, Adolph. Photograph, Nijinsky in  L'apres-midi D'un Faune, 1912.
Warhol, Andy. Print, Cow Wallpaper. 1960s.
Quotes:
The (Cahiers) Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky. 1999.
Poem “Fauna Skins”. 2002.

This page depicts the letter “F” as Fauna a word for  animal,  assembled from paintings of animals, with a poem about animal  and physical traits, an echo of primitive human ancestry.  Bocklin's Faun is reechoed and personified in  Vaslav Nijinsky's  dance  L'apres-midi D'un Faune,1912.  The work was derived from a poem by Stephane Mallarmé and set to music by Debussy as fleeting impressions.  This dance was known as the most striking of all of  Nijinsky’s ballets using a new visual language.  Odd shapes, asymmetrical poses, and awkward, pigeon-toed steps were joined  in an effort to be totally centered on raw emotion in dance and music.  Sometimes his dance was compared to paintings on Greek urns, or Egyptian hieroglyphics with it's stiff and angular gestures. In 199 9 his diaries were published.   With his dance  and writing Nijinsky embodied  the  feeling and instinctual nature and perhaps the extinction of a certain quality in human culture at the end of the modern period.  

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Advice on the Choice of a Font* - Serif Font Chart
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(Possibly the most useful thing in this book, without reference to the printer Ben Franklin)

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Modes of embodied consciousness proliferate in a renaissance of primitive aspiration augmented by the potentialities of digital culture.  Such aspirations are inscribed as a human longing for something that was left behind many thousand years ago, according to Mikela and Philip Tarlow in Digital Aboriginal (2002). They affirm fulfillment of this primitive longing is enhanced by digital communication’s potential. Tribal consciousness is considered consistent with digital modes, where both are defined as nomadic flux and instinctive decision making, where meaning is derived by nuanced indeterminacy within a collective database of memory stores. Digital Aboriginal states:

In fact, the electronic landscape is plunging us into a way of thinking and connecting that has more in common with our aboriginal ancestors than how we lived even a few decades ago.

The apparent postmodern disinterest in the enlightenment and modern quests for knowledge is actually the urge for the empirical, reconstituted as the desire for tactical sensation in a burgeoning pleasure/leisure culture. The empirical yet disassociated proof of paternity via a DNA test is an example. The dismissal of enlightenment’s project is redirected or remediated as postulated by several theorists. The hyper-desire of the unfixed self for sensation is accompanied by the concomitant desire for the loss of physicality in an increasing abstraction of being.     

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