Victor Hugo’s secret world: unveiling the surreal sketchbook of a literary giant
One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...
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The Drawings of Victor Hugo: claustrophobic, psychedelic – and creepy
A giant mushroom towers over a blasted landscape. A rampant octopus performs otherworldly semaphore with improbably knotted tentacles. A solitary eyeball (or planet?) spins in a grey void.
‘Puffy-head bird-leg syndrome’: What space travel does to the body
Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness, radiation ...