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William S. Burroughs and David Woodard with a Brion Gysin Dreamachine (1997): 142–146 The Dreamachine (a contraction of Dream Machine), invented in 1959 by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, is a stroboscopic flickering light art device that produces eidetic visual stimuli.
0-394-17984-6 (1982 edition) OCLC. 8879225. The Third Mind is a book by Beat Generation novelist William S. Burroughs and artist/poet/novelist Brion Gysin. First published in a French-language edition in 1977, it was published in English in 1978. It contains numerous short fiction pieces as well as poetry by Gysin, and an interview with ...
It is a joint development between Burroughs and Brion Gysin. William S. Burroughs, popularizer of the technique. William Burroughs cited T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem, The Waste Land, and John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy, which incorporated newspaper clippings, as early examples of the cut ups he popularized.
The Story of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, The Dreamachine and von Bartha | Widewalls. Galerie von Bartha is about to open a retrospective of the Beat Generation legends William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, centered on their visit to Basel in 1979.
(from front flap) The milestone collaboration between William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, among the foremost literary & cultural figures of all time; & Brion Gysin (1916-1986), the artist & writer who was WSB's great friend & colleague: THE THIRD MIND, to which we pay the utmost tribute as the very ...
- First American Edition.
Brion Gysin (1916 – 1986) first worked as a painter in the Surrealist tradition, then moved to Tangier in Morocco where he ran a bar and worked as an artist and novelist. There he met William S. Burrouhgs who was inspired by the cut-up technique invented by Gysin to create novels like “Naked Lunch”. In the early 1960s, Gysin designed the ...
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Burroughs's raw subject matter and seeming lack of discipline have alienated some of the more academic and genteel literary critics. Naked Lunch was followed by three additional novels about the Nova crime syndicate-The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), and Nova Express (1964), which make use of overlapping characters and motifs.
