Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings Bloomsbury Christmas

Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings Bloomsbury ChristmasThis catalogue and exhibition celebrates the unique Mescaline Drawings by the Franco Belgian poet and visual artist Henri Michaux (18991984). In January 1955, as part of an experiment prompted by his publisher, Michaux, who was then 56 years old, tried the psychedelic drug mescaline, a product derived from the Mexican peyote cactus. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the effect of this type of non addictive drug on the creative act. Michaux

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Publication date: August 2017

Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by women is more prominent than ever

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