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Nuttall writes about the youthful violence of the sixties and its relation to early 20th century artistic avant garde movements. He also describes the small press literary scene of the sixties including the Beats and the circle around Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum. Nuttall was a participant in the latter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, curator of photography at LACMA, was issued for an exhibition in 1996. It emphasizes the importance and influence of the painted and poetic works as well as the life of William Burroughs and his collaborator, Brion Gysin. In his preface Sobieszek writes that "Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. His revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where a shotgun blast is the same as a painting. At the core of Burroughs's art is the 'cut-up' technique that he and Brion Gysin developed following the appearance of Naked Lunch. While loosely related to the more traditional techniques of collage, photomontage, and text-image experiments used by modern artists, Burroughs's cut- up strategy inaugurated an essentially postmodern shift in the...

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This is the second edition with reproductions from the original photographs and postage stamp of the first edition published in 1976 (25 copies). The images on the stamps include William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Francoise Janicot, Henri Chopin and Rodney Grey. Each artist stamp or stamps is affixed to a papercard sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The photographs depict postal stamps altered with images of mostly William Burroughs. Other writers and politicians also appear. The stamp collage by Cozette de Charmoy depicts William Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.