BRION GYSIN

Brion Gysin (191686) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the cut-up technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered expat: toge ther with his friend Paul Bowles, he more or less constructed the post-beatnik romanticism for life and magic in Morocco, and was al so a protagonist in an international gay culture with inspirational reaches in both America and Europe. Not surprisingly, Gysin has become som...[Read more]