Rub Out The Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974
2012Burroughs, William S.
480 pages (color)
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1916 Taplow House, England - 1986 Paris, France. Known for: Collage-cut-ups-collage, drawing, calligraphy, writing.
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique,... Read full biography
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented... Read full biography
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic... Read full biography
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by the cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script. Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected.". John Clifford Brian Gysin was born at Taplow House, England, a Canadian military hospital. His... Read full biography
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by the cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script. Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected.". John Clifford Brian Gysin was born at Taplow House, England, a Canadian military hospital. His mother, Stella Margaret Martin, was a Canadian from Deseronto, Ontario. His father, Leonard Gysin, a captain with the Canadian Expeditionary Fo... Read full biography
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Byron Gysin: Dream Machine
2010Hoptman, Laura192 pages (color)See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision (Lentos Art Museum, LInz, Austria
2009Rainer, Cosima et al312 pages (color)Nothing is True---Everthing is Permitted The Life of Brion Gysin
2005Geiger, John320 pages (color)Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age
2003Gysin, Brion; Jose Ferez Kuri (Editor)240 pages (color)Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader
2002Gysin, Brion; Jason Weiss (Editor)400 pages (color)Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
2001Burroughs, William S.; James Grauerholz (Editor)305 pages