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	Henri Michaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henri Michaux (May 24, 1899 - October 18, 1984) was a highly individualistic Belgian poet, writer and painter who wrote in the French language.
		Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism.
		Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with drugs, the latter resulting in two of his most intriguing works, Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henri_Michaux (134 words)

	little blue light - Henri Michaux
		Henri Michaux was born May 24, 1899 in the small Belgian town of Namur, the second child of Octave Michaux, a shopkeeper, and his wife Jeanne.
		Michaux's increasing interest in art was evident in the 1939 publication of Peintures, a work that coupled his poems with his own abstract illustrations.
		Though Michaux was pleased his work was now accessible to the public, he wished to maintain his anonymity and refused to have picture appear in the book (he was the only author in the series granted this privilege).
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/intro.php?ikey=19 (2037 words)

	Henri Michaux's Mescaline Drawings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the occasion of the poet/artist Henri Michaux's one hundredth birthday, the Parisian Galerie Thessa Herold has mounted a generous display of his phantasmagorical drawings; the majority of which are mescaline engendered.
		Yet Michaux's fancied, aesthetic non-knowledge is certainly the most erudite, the most aware, the most conscious area of our current anti-war consistency, as it is also the phantasmal depths from which all digital representation emerges in its precarious, but glittering, existence.
		Henri Michaux's pre-electronic electrified art then helps us to understand that the "real world" of war is established upon phantasmal images - rank non-materiality.
	www.pd.org /topos/perforations/perf20/michaux.html (1943 words)

	Michaux Press Release
		Henri Michaux was born in Namur, Belgium to a bourgeois family, growing up as a withdrawn and lonely adolescent during his attendance at a boarding school in Brussels.
		In the late '50's and '60's, Michaux experimented with the drug mescaline and created abstract "mescaline drawings" that were not so much visions created under the influence as they were textures representing states of exceptional awareness.
		Henri Michaux's small, intimate paintings at Zabriskie Gallery are exhibited in conjunction with the artist's graphic work at the Drawing Center in SoHo: Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux, from October 28th to December 20th.
	www.zabriskiegallery.com /Michaux/michauxpressrelease.html (495 words)

	French Culture \| art: Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michaux merged his writing into his drawing and his drawing into his writing, pushing the boundaries of each form of expression.
		Beginning in the 1920s, Michaux took up drawing, and it was through this activity that he sought to delve into the wellspring of the unknown and the spontaneous.
		Whether thrown onto paper or flung from the pen, Michaux’s use of ink, followed later by watercolor, was fluid, direct, and shapeless; these qualities allowed the artist to gain access to his emotions and give fuller expression to their remarkable subconscious power.
	www.frenchculture.org /art/events/michaux-drawing.html (553 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Michaux Henri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michaux, Henri (1899-1984), French poet of Belgian origin, also renowned for his paintings and drawings.
		He greatly influenced John Dos Passos, who was his translator, Henry Miller, and Henri Michaux.
		Henri, Robert (1865-1929), American painter, art educator, and mentor of the group of painters known as The Eight.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Michaux_Henri.html (115 words)

	NYRB: Henri Michaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henri Michaux (1899 -1984) was born in Namur, Belgium, the son of a lawyer, and educated at a Jesuit school in Brussels.
		Settling in Paris, Michaux began to write and paint, and his work, especially his prose poems recounting the strange and very funny misadventures of the character he called Monsieur Plume, drew the attention and praise of other writers, among them André Gide.
		In 1948 Michaux's wife died after accidentally setting her nightgown on fire; devastated, Michaux devoted himself increasingly to his distinctive calligraphic drawings in ink.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/8496 (263 words)

	ArtForum: Henri Michaux - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
		Henri Michaux was one of that rare clan, the writers-turned-artists.
		Michaux's draftsmanship was born out of an urge to depict the strangeness of writing - to produce something even more opaque than the invented words in his poems of the period, just as those words amplify the vivifying effect he had found as a child of isolated words in the dictionary, where "words.
		It was in 1936 that Michaux seems to have set seriously to work at painting, now primarily in gouache, leading two years later to an exhibition whose announcement proclaimed: "Un poete se change en peintre" (A poet turns into a painter).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_9_37/ai_54772294 (774 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| Henri Michaux: Miserable Miracle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anhedonic as ever, Michaux began his hallucinogenic experiments in anything but the spirit of what we now call 'recreational.' He was searching for the foreign territory within himself.
		Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was born in Namur, Belgium, the son of a lawyer, and educated at a Jesuit school in Brussels.
		Michaux's travels, throughout the Americas, Asia, and Africa, were to inspire his first two books, the extraordinary travelogues Ecuador and A Barbarian in Asia (later translated into Spanish by Jorge Luis Borges).
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/fiction/michauxmiserable.html (461 words)

	Trois Poèmes d'Henri Michaux [Trzy poematy Henri Michaux], Witold Lutoslawski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Witold Lutoslawski : Trois Poèmes d'Henri Michaux [Trzy poematy Henri Michaux]
		Trois poèmes d’Henri Michaux was written for the Zagreb Biennale and first performed there by the orchestra and choir of Radio Zagreb, conducted by the composer and Slavko Zlatic on 9 May 1963.
		These reflect his Francophile taste: Henri Michaux was born in Belgium in 1899 and later became a painter: the trenchant Le Grand Combat, with its onomatopoeic invented words, dates form the 1920s; the other two texts, which are more philosophic than pictorial, form the 1930s.
	www.chesternovello.com /work/8484/main.html (553 words)

	French Culture \| books: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux accompanies an exhibition at The Drawing Center, New York (October 28-December 20, 2000).
		Michaux took his drawing into his writing into his drawing, stretching the boundaries of each form of expression in order to say the unsayable.
		The catalogue is edited and introduced by Catherine de Zegher and includes four essays by Michaux scholars and art critics as well as a republished interview of Michaux by John Ashbery, and reproductions in color and fl-and-white of all of the works in the exhibition, a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of works.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/books/releases/michaux.html (283 words)

	A Barbarian in Asia - Henri Michaux
		Henri Michaux was barely thirty when he travelled to Southern and Eastern Asia.
		In staccato style Michaux notes his impressions: there are long sections of paragraphs, each only a line in length.
		Even Michaux seems to have understood that what he wrote was far from politically correct: he revised the book (in particular the part on Japan).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/michauxh/barbasia.htm (543 words)

	Henri Michaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henri Michaux's drawings that I saw were all produced whilst under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug mescaline.
		Michaux's and Wolses drawings were compared in the exhibition.
		Michaux's work could not seem further from Francois Morellet's work but they feed off each other's qualities.
	www.users.waitrose.com /~weller/sites/personalstudy/artists/michaux/michaux.htm (409 words)

	Sotheby's - Services & Information - Investor Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Without a doubt Gwenn-Aël Bolloré was most passionate about the works of Henri Michaux (1899-1984) and the sale of such a collection is not to be missed.
		Henri Michaux stayed at the manor in Odet and wrote about the foliage of the rhododendrons: 'this is the first time I have ever contemplated European vegetation'.
		These pages are 'even less legible than they make sense', and the experience upon which they were based is written about by Henri Michaux himself in his book "Misérable miracle", published in 1956, and in which the drawings are reproduced.
	www.shareholder.com /bid/news/20020201-71066.cfm (1451 words)

	Miserable Miracle - Henri Michaux
		In Miserable Miracle, Henri Michaux describes his almost clinical experiments with mescaline (much as Aldous Huxley did in his drug-books).
		There are some interesting observations: the dominance of colour, for example, and with it a loss of sound: "Sensibility on one side calls for insensibility on the other" (though Michaux does not wonder whether it is because he is a visual artist (rather than, say, a musician) that this is his experience).
		Michaux moves along fairly quickly, not lingering tiresomely over some of these experiences -- and conveying some of the frenzy and intensity he was confronted with.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/michauxh/mmiracle.htm (479 words)

	Tent Posts / Poteaux d'angle - Henri Michaux
		Written by a man who was already over seventy Michaux seeks to impart his wisdom -- or at least the lessons he has learnt.
		Michaux's vigorous prose and compact presentation -- familiar from his other works -- is well-suited for these brief pieces.
		Hoggard writes that her goal in this translation was "to preserve a sense of Michaux's archness and intimacy", and she has succeeded fairly well.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/michauxh/tentposts.htm (657 words)

	Henri Michaux -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michaux was the son of a Belgian lawyer.
		French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer Henri Farman was born in Paris.
		French novelist Henri Murger was among the first to depict the precarious lives of poor artists and writers—which he knew from experience.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052466 (631 words)

	Ideograms of China, by Henri Michaux \| Jeffery Beam \| Essays \| Oyster Boy Review 17 \| Fall 2003
		To pair another of my favorite French writers, Michaux, with one of our most interesting prose writers and translators, Gustaf Sobin, makes for a useful and inspired contribution to the study of Chinese ideograms.
		One feels Michaux's enthusiasm for the possibilities of poetic communication through visual image and the delight he took in developing an understanding of the Chinese written form as contrasted with our own: "Any written page, any surface covered with characters turns into something crammed and seething.
		Like Jabès, Michaux finds answers: "The hand should be empty, should in no way hinder what's flowing into it.
	www.oysterboyreview.com /issue/17/BeamJ-Michaux.html (271 words)

	Alibris: Henri Michaux
		In this collection of short pieces and drawings, Henri Michaux, one of 20th-century France's finest poets and artists, describes the anguish and the ecstasy of his encounter with the hallucinogen mescaline.
		Michaux is one of the notable travellers of modern French poetry; not only to the Amazon and the Far East, but into the strange hinterland of his own inner space.
		Henri Michaux : [exposition], Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, 15 mars-14 juin 1978.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Michaux,Henri (479 words)

	Moving Parts Press - Meidosems
		Few French poets have been served as well by a translator/editor/book designer as is Henri Michaux in Elizabeth Jackson's truly beautiful edition of the poet's 1948 livre d'artiste, MEIDOSEMS.
		Michaux tells with sympathetic humor of their land, their customs, their irresistible penchant for metamorphosis.
		Belgian by birth and French by choice, Henri Michaux was a true voyager in the realm of twentieth century expression.
	www.movingpartspress.com /Text/meidosem.html (504 words)

	now no more of that, i will intervene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When in 1941 Andre Gide published the lecture he never delivered, Decouvrons Henri Michaux, the poet was far from being unknown in France.
		It is true that he had not reached a large public, but already by that time he was one of the most highly esteemed poets, the one who has created in his work a world totally different from the real world.
		The relationship which Michaux has established between the natural and the unbelievable has created a surreal world which has become the familiar world of his poetry.
	www.kalin.lm.com /michaux.html (670 words)

	Henri Michaux
		Belgian-French painter and poet, Michaux was born in Namur, Belgium and studied medicine at Brussels University.
		In 1960 he won the Einaudi Prize at the Venice Biennale and in 1965 he was awarded the Grand Prix National des Lettres in recognition of his services to painting and literature, but he refused to accept it.
		Michaux is not easy to classify, either as an artist or as a poet.
	www.bauerart.com /Michaux.html (263 words)

	little blue light - Henri Michaux - Links
		Henri Michaux - Magazine Litteraire - An issue dedicated to Michaux with a collection of essays.
		Henri Michaux, "la vie dans les plis" - A review of the first biography on Michaux.
		Henri Michaux, l'explorateur de l'imaginaire - A review of volume II of Michaux's complete works by L'Humanite.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/links.php/intro.php?ikey=19 (455 words)

	Amazon.com: Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984: Books: Henri Michaux,David Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		French painter Michaux (1899-1984) explored the subconscious mind and the effects of such hallucinogens as mescalin not only in pigment but in poetry.
		It is, however, Michaux's connection to the author of Maldoror that draws me to him, and as in Ducassean texts, Michaux's writings reveal numinous monsters aplenty, strange landscapes, psychic flora and fauna that are noted, illuminated from all sides, catalogued in precise detail.
		Michaux often published a string of small books between major collections - the major books overlapping, partially containing and redacting the earlier books in a highly complex and confusing way.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520212290?v=glance (1206 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henri Michaux at the Drawing Center, Michael Werner, and Zabriskie.
		His adventurous life is reflected in his novels and, in the surrealist manner, in his poems and prose...
		This is the triumph of Henri Michaux, and part of the reason why he...
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?q=Henri+Michaux&refid=kunstnet (491 words)

	Poems by Henri Michaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henri Michaux (1899-1924) was Belgian by birth and French by choice.
		Often somewhat wrongly associated with the Surrealists, both his writing and his painting defy any schools or categories, uniquely exploring the realms of human consciousness, often touching upon the mad and the absurd.
		Michaux's Life in the folds (La vie dans les plis) will be published by Black Square Editions.
	www.poetryproject.com /poets&poems/wright.html (130 words)

	French Culture \| art: Henri-Michaux, Watercolors and Gouaches. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The majority of the Watercolors and Gouaches by Henri Michaux, exhibited at Zabriskie Gallery, survey a wide period of production from the 1930's to the early 80's.
		Michaux was an idiosynchratic -and uncategorizable- artist/writer who sought meaning by looking almost exclusively within himself to sort out a dynamic world filled with disorder, to "locate what really matters." The results are often brimming, anxious lines and textures that elude specific times or laces, imaginative anthropocentric, yet peculiar inhabitants.
		This exhibition of small scale, intimate paintings by Henri Michaux at Zabriskie Gallery can be seen in conjunction with his abstract drawings, concurrently on display at the Drawing Center in SoHo, from October 28th to December 20th.
	www.frenchculture.org /art/events/michaux-zabriskie.html (126 words)

	Ideograms In China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux’s Ideograms in China is now available as a New Directions Paperbook.
		Peerlessly translated by the American poet Gustaf Sobin, this long, beautiffilly illustrated and annotated prose poem was originally written as an introduction to Leon Chang’s La calligraphie chinoise (1971), a work that now stands as an Important complement to Pound and Ernest Fenollosa’s classic study The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.
		The poet and artist Henri Michaux was born in Belgium in 1899, studied mysticism as a young man, traveled throughout South America m the 1920’s and Asia in the 1930’s.
	www.wwnorton.com /nd/FALL01/MichauxIDEOGRAMS.htm (233 words)

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