THE ART OF WILLIAM S BURROUGHS

The influence of William Burroughs on popular culture has been enormous: the Beatles, the Stones, Andy Warhol, the Velvet Undergroun d, David Bowie, Keith Haring, David Cronenberg and Sonic Youth have all paid homage to the Beat writer in various media. While Burro ughs 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.