Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age

About this book

This comprehensive biography presents the achievements of Brion Gysin a multi-faceted artist whose work has influenced performers such as David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Recalling the heady atmosphere of the so-called Beat Hotel in Paris in the late 1950s and 1960s it features first-hand reminiscences by contemporaries plus a biographical essay and chronological listings. productive literary collaboration with William Burroughs. As well as looking at his work as a sound poet and performance artist it features reproductions of his paintings and graphics and examples of his permutated poems and other writings.