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Dream Machine / Gysin, Brion ; Laura Hoptman, curator ; Burroughs WS ; P-orridge G ; Giorno J., 2010

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Identifier: CC-56811-10000179
Scope and Contents The Sackners attended this spectacular exhibition. Water Row Books: This is the first comprehensive survey of the works of the radical artist Brion Gysin, featuring a stunning selection of illustrations. During his lifetime Brion Gysin (1916-1986) inspired an array of artists, writers, poets and musicians, notably the Beat Generation. Since his death Gysin's own work has only increased in popularity, yet his radical approach to art defies categorization. Brion Gysin: Dream Machine is the first detailed study of Gysin's oeuvre in both art-historical and contemporary contexts. A devotee of invention, Gysin created paintings, drawings, photo-collages, installations, poetry and sound experiments. He produced the cut-up collage novel The Third Mind (1965) with William Burroughs, and with Ian Sommerville developed the Dreamachine (1961), a kinetic sculpture designed to induce visions by playing flickering light on the closed eyes of the viewer. This exciting new book, featuring incisive...
Dates: 2010

The Unknown Loved by the Knowns [Brion Gysin] / Kennedy, Randy; Gysin B; Burroughs WS; Giorno J., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51188-72276
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This is a review of an exhibition of the work of Brion Gysin at the New Museum in New York. The curator, Laura Hoptman writes that "in her minds eye Brion Gysin will finally emerge, fully formed, in this retrospective as the artist he really was...This wil be one version of him, And maybe someday all the musicians he knew and all the people he slept with or all the people he had influenced so deeply will end up giving us their own Brion Gysins." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

William Burroughs John Giorno / John Giorno; William S. Burroughs.

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Identifier: CC-62912-10004564
Dates: Majority of material found in 1979-2019

You Got to Burn to Shine; Du Musst Brennen Um Zu Strahlen, 1992

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Identifier: CC-10435-10639
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds a copy of the book and tape cassette that constituted the trade edition of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992