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This is primarily a photodocumentation of the Beat Poetry movement and also includes reproductions of Beat documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Isaac Gewitz curated this exhibition and wrote this exceptionally good catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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...

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Includes a reference and illustration of the Seventh Assembling compiled by Richard Kostelanetz and Henry Korn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sten Hanson's essay on "Henri Chopin, the Sound Poet" traces his career and analyzes his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letters reprinted in chronologic order with minimal annotations were selected and edited by Matie Molinari, Corinne McLuhan and William Toye. They provide a background to McLuhans's life and intellectual growth and reveal his staggering knowledge of the literature of the great writers and thinkers who inspired him to achieve his penetrating insights into the age of electronic communication and become its most renowned interpreter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated as one of a series of books in Circles of the Twentieth Century. Well researched history of the Beat poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Robert H. Jackson contributed an essay "William S. Burroughs: A Man with Qualities" and loaned much of the manuscripts to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was a multifaceted artist whose fertile mind and wide range of original ideas were a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation in Paris, as well as to innovative artists and performers such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Haring, and Laurie Anderson in the next generation. Painter, writer, sound poet, tape composer, lyricist, and performance artist, Gysin is remembered particularly for his evocative paintings of the North African desert in the 1950s and his original calligraphic abstractions based on Japanese and Arabic scripts. The chance discovery by Gysin of the cut-up technique (later developed and refined by William S. Burroughs) and the concept of permutated poems gave rise to new and original forms of sound art wordplay, striking not only in print but also in recordings or live performance. Gysin's inventive ideas also extended to the Dreamachine and to collages of text and photographs. This is the first comprehensive publication on...

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Edited by Allen De Loach. Photograph of Eric Mottram by Jennifer Cobbing. This book is one of the 1125 of a total print run of 3500 bound in cloth. Mottram minutely examines Burroughs' life and major works, stating in Chapter 1 that Burroughs is "...a radical satirist whose indignation and disgust reach through the crust of the power games of the world into the aggressive areas of the obscene....expos[ing] the -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.