A Cabinet of Rarities author-nicholas-ganz exploring the role of drugs

exploring the role of drugs from ayahuasca in the Amazon to coffee in early modern Europe

Without photography

for which he won Academy Awards for Costume Design

their meetings

A Cabinet of Rarities author-nicholas-ganz exploring the role of drugsWith breathtaking virtuosity and a unique, dreamlike vision, rik Desmazieres? a master of contemporary printmaking ? re creates interiors, cityscapes and fantastical compositions. For this book the first to include the artist's rare work in colour Desmazieres has delved deep into the arcane theme of cabinets of curiosities. Taking as his starting point the melancholy musings of the seventeenth century antiquary Sir Thomas Browne, he has reinterpreted