{"product_id":"the-art-of-william-s-burroughs-cutups-cutins-cutouts-9783869843155","title":"The Art of William S. Burroughs: Cut-ups  Cut-ins  Cut-outs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe influence of William Burroughs on popular culture has been enormous: the Beatles  the Stones  Andy Warhol  the Velvet Underground  David Bowie  Keith Haring  David Cronenberg and Sonic Youth have all paid homage to the Beat writer in various media. While Burroughs life story and sexual\/narcotic proclivities have had their own legacy  the cut-up method that he developed in the 1960s with his friend Brion Gysin has proved his most generative legacy. Writers  musicians and artists of all kinds have adopted this chance procedure  which involves the cutting and splicing of language--or image  or sound--to produce unexpected conjunctions and scramble consensus reality. The cut-up is actually closer to the facts of perception than representational painting  Burroughs wrote of the method. Take a walk down a city street and put down what you have just seen on canvas . . . consciousness is a cut up. This compendium of Burroughs artwork  collages  cut-ups  scrapbooks  photographs  films  ephemera and paintings offers a full overview of his visual output  emphasizing the importance and legacy of the cut-up method. In addition  it examines the significance of his tape cut-up experiments of the 60s and 70s  as well as his practice of collaboration across media. Containing much previously unseen material  Cut-ups  Cut-ins  Cut-outs: The Art of William Burroughs is a definitive publication on a writer and artist whose influence only increases with time. William Seward Burroughs (19141997) was born in St. Louis  Missouri. He studied at Harvard University where he graduated in 1936 and briefly attended medical school in Vienna. In the 1940s he met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg  thus helping to found the Beat movement  of which his novel Naked Lunch is a key text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650610192437,"sku":"ByrdShop_3869843152","price":344.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783869843155.jpg?v=1781799706","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-william-s-burroughs-cutups-cutins-cutouts-9783869843155","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}