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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1914-1997-08-11- - 1997

Found in 312 Collections and/or Records:

The Burroughs File , 1984

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Identifier: CC-30497-31925
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition. It includes reproductions of "Pages from Cut-Up Scrapbooks" in which Burroughs' pasted remnants from "Moroccan streets, weird news items, St. Louis memorabilia, ruminations on sex and death, old photographs, notes from narcs, and other essential exotica - an incredible montage of telescoped existence on the main line, source material and matrix of his books." There are also sections of Burroughs' The White Subway, The Old Movies, The Cobble Stone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Exterminator / Burroughs, William S. ; Gysin, Brion., 1960

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Identifier: CC-22623-23052
Scope and Contents

The text was written by Burroughs, the poems and calligraphic drawings were composed by Gysin. This book, a first edition, was published later in 1967 as a second edition. Includes four pages of Gysin's calligraphic drawings, rendered in black ink, dated 1960 that are in same style as Gysin's book of drawings "Exil" held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Burroughs, William S.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-22380-22803
Scope and Contents

Speech delivered 1980 at the occasion of the Institute of Ecotechnics' "1980 Planet Earth Conference" in Aix-en-Provence. Book was illustrated by Christof Kohlhofer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Graphic Language of Neville Brody Volumes 1 & 2 / Brody, Neville ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B., 1995

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Identifier: CC-24084-24536
Scope and Contents

Born in 1957 and educated at the London College of Printing, the early influences on Brody were Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Punk Rock, Moly Nagy, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and Malevich. Brody has designed record covers, magazines book covers, logos most recently digitized images and alphabets. Brody was a founder of Fuse, a digital disc accompanied by posters of experimental typography. Jon Wozencroft provided the text and captions for these books which are reprinted from the 1988 & 1994 editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Poet Exposed / Felver, Christopher ; Bernstein C ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Ginsberg A ; Giorno J ; Hirschman J ; Hollo A ; MacLow J ; McClure M ; Padgett R ; Rothenberg J ; Saroyan A ; Schwerner A ; Coolidge C ; Sanders E ; Creeley R ; Antin D ; Ashbery J., 1986

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Identifier: CC-11213-11428
Scope and Contents

Photographic portraits of 101 contemporary American poets are matched with their personal, handwritten signed prose, poetic statements, and/or drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Supreme Indecision of the Writer: The 1994 Lectures in Turkey / Federman, Raymond ; Abish W ; Gins M ; Gass W ; Sukenick R ; Burroughs WS ; Beckett S., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27877-29016
Scope and Contents

The titles of these lectures include "The last Stand of Literature," The Real Begins When the Spectacle Ends," "Federman on Federman: Lie Or Die," and "the Supreme Indecision of Postmodernism." The clarity of the essays and the analysis of how Federman sees himself in relation to the political and cultural world reinforces his importance and influence in 20th century literature and thought. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

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
Scope and Contents

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

Time - Place - Word / Burroughs, William S. ; Jackson Ro ; Gysin B ; Ginsberg A., 2000

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Identifier: CC-43526-45599
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

To Be Me To Be You, 1971

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Identifier: CC-19801-20188
Scope and Contents

This is a signed, unfolded, poster collaborative work by the artists that was published in Review OU No.38-39, 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Tom Taylor & Jim Leftwich / Taylor, Thomas Lowe ; Leftwich, Jim ; Burroughs WS ; Gaze T ; Silliman R ; Lehmus J ; Hibbard T ; Eco U., 2003

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Identifier: CC-62533-47687
Scope and Contents

The asemic writing on the photocopied colored pages by Leftwich makes each book unique -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Treatment and Transformation: Tom Phillips's "A Humument" / Elsas, Elizabeth ; Burroughs WS ; Eaton T ; Kostelanetz R ; Lyons J ; Paschal H ; Phillpot C ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1992

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Identifier: CC-13445-13747
Scope and Contents

Elsas visited the Sackner Archive to study the Phillips works in the collection and several of the reproductions in this student thesis are taken from works in the Archive. The thesis is an exceptionally mature, perceptive critical accounting of Phillips' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Tuning in to the Multimedia Age edited by Jose Ferez Kuri / Gysin, Brion ; Burroughs WS ; Corso G ; Brett G ; Heidsieck B ; Zurbrugg N ; Giorno J ; Artaud A ; Barthes R ; Beckett S ; Bowles J ; Bowles P ; Breton A ; Chopin H ; Corso G ; Dufrene F ; Eluard P ; Ernst M ; Ferlinghetti L ; Filiou R ; Ginsberg A ; Hanson S ; Higgins D ; Janicot F ; Knowles A ; Maciunas G ; Patchen K ; Stein G ; Tzara T ; Williams E ; Miles B., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43917-46026
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...
Dates: 2003

[Untitled] / Chopin, Henri ; Nicholas Zurbrugg, curator ; Sackner MA ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Cobbing B ; Conz F ; Furnival J ; Gerz J ; Gibbs M ; Giorno J ; Heidsieck B ; Higgins D ; Lax R ; McCaffery S ; Morgan E ; Phillips T ; Reichardt J ; Wallrich L ; Zweig E ; deCharmoy C., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20060-20454
Scope and Contents

The catalogue Iincluded an interview of Chopin by Zurbrugg and a series of brief reminsciences submitted by friends of Chopin including Marvin Sackner. Nicholas Zurbrugg's nationality is Swiss-Australian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992