by Henri Michaux · Círculo de Bellas Artes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788486418786
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Ideograms in China: Captar mediante trazos is a book that explores the relationship between image and word through poetry and calligraphy. Henri Michaux presents us with a delicate assembly of graphic work and poetry, paying special attention to the continuity between the pictorial stroke, calligraphy and writing. This book, originally published as a prologue to a treatise on oriental calligraphy, invites us to reflect on the semantics of the sign and the materiality of the concept.
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had shows of his work in 1978. His autobiographical texts that chronicle his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones. He is recognised for his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism. Michaux is also known for his stories about Plume – "a peaceable man" – one of the most unenterprising heroes in literature, a character subject to many misfortunes.
